508561 - SVGUseElement has no instanceRoot attribute (SVG DOM)

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Tangui LE PENSE]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; fr; rv:1.9.1.2) Gecko/20090729 Firefox/3.5.2 (.NET CLR 3.5.30729)

The SVGUseElement have no instanceRoot attribute in the SVG DOM, which makes impossible to access the shadow tree of a use element.

Reproducible: Always

Actual Results:  
This property isn't implemented

Expected Results:  
The shadow tree should be accessible

Comment 1

[Tangui LE PENSE]

Attachment: No instanceRoot attribute on SVGUseElement SVG DOM Object

Click on the green square

Comment 2

[Robert Longson [:longsonr]]

Pretty much the same as bubg 265895 although this is a better testcase as that bug does not seem to have a testcase that has anything to do with the bubg as far as I can tell.

Comment 4

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

The following tests from the SVG 1.1 test suite fail due to this:

http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/test/svg/struct-dom-07-f.svg
http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/test/svg/struct-dom-14-f.svg
http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/test/svg/struct-dom-15-f.svg
http://dev.w3.org/SVG/profiles/1.1F2/test/svg/struct-dom-19-f.svg

the last one being one submitted by MS that I reviewed.

Comment 5

[Daniel Holbert [:dholbert]]

Making this block bug 512501 (SVG 1.1 tests tracking bug), per comment 4.

Comment 6

[Cameron McCormack (:heycam)]

SVGElementInstance trees have been removed from SVG 2, so we won't be doing this.