45428 - getElementsByTagName('*') does not find #text nodes

Status: VERIFIED INVALID

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, defect, P3)

Description

[Matthias Kerkhoff]

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User-Agent: Mozilla/4.73 [en] (WinNT; U)
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Calling getElementsByTagName('*') does not return any text nodes.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Create a document with at least one text node (this should not be to 
difficult:)
2. Call getElementsByTagName and dump the nodeNames of the returned nodes.


Actual Results:  
3. There will be no #text node.							

Expected Results:  From my understanding of the DOM(2) spec, I would expect to 
be #text nodes included in the returned collection.
Page 33 reads... "tagname - The name of the tag to match on. The special value 
"*" matches all tags."
Ok, one might discuss what _all tags_ exactly means. I think, a joker is joker 
and it should return all nodes. Of course, I may be wrong.

Comment 1

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

The definition of the getElementsByTagName, as well as the name of the method
itself, says the getElementsByTagName() returns a list of *elements*, here's the
text from the DOM Level 2 spec:

"Returns a NodeList of all the Elements with a given tag name in the order in
which they are encountered in a preorder traversal of the Document tree"

Text nodes are *not* elements, only nodes that inherit the DOM Element interface
should be conciderd an element, IOW it will not return Documents, CDATASections,
Comment, ...

Marking INVALID

Comment 2

[Matthias Kerkhoff]

Thanks for correction and explanation.

Comment 3

[Jan Carpenter]

Mass update of qa contact

Comment 4

[Jan Carpenter]

verified