510372 - Default Namespace is ignored when processing XML attributes.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Virtual Machine, defect)

Description

[Chris Peyer]

Steps to reproduce:
1. Create an application with the following snippet
var message:XML =
    <Result offset="0" total="6" xmlns="http://whatever.com/">
</Result>;
    public function init():void{
     var ns:Namespace = new Namespace('http://whatever.com/');;
var noTotal:XMLList = message.@ns::total;
trace(noTotal);
var total:XMLList = message.@total;
trace(total);

    }
2. Run the application

 Actual Results:
[blank space]
6
 
 Expected Results:
 6
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 Workaround (if any):
 do not use namespace when accessing attributes in the default namespace 
Transferred Comments:

Chris Peyer - Thu Aug 13 16:30:07 PDT 2009
Verified bug. Attribute in default namespace and not defined namespace. Not 100% sure if this is a bug as the Essential AS 3.0 book states that "Once the default namespace has been established, all subsequently created elements (but NOT attributes) without an explicit namespace are automatically qualified by the default namespace.


This bug transferred from: http://bugs.adobe.com/jira/browse/ASC-3743

Comment 1

[Steven Johnson]

Any fix for this bug will likely need version-checking for backwards compatibility.