Closed Bug 536397 Opened 15 years ago Closed 15 years ago

XML xlink regression

Categories

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
General
Platform:
x86
Windows XP
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED INVALID

People

(Reporter: lfournie, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091221 Minefield/3.7a1pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091221 Minefield/3.7a1pre

The simple xlink on XML file works on FF3.5.X but it does not work anymore on Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.3a1pre) Gecko/20091221 Minefield/3.7a1pre. The link is detected but not click-able.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Open this document.
(the css is just here to avoid a message from FF, but it does not impact the issue)

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet href="bug_xlink.css" type="text/css"?>
<doc xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">
<ref xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xlink:type="simple" xlink:actuate="onRequest" xlink:href="#ICI" xlink:title="link" >HERE</ref>
</doc>
Actual Results:  
If the pointer is on the word HERE, it is a link, but not click is available.

Expected Results:  
a real link in XML !

Do not say XML link are not used. I use many XML files and I need to browse them using FF and a simple CSS. These files have link-references but I don't want to use the <a href...> HTML tags because they mean nothing for these applications.
Url has the testcase from comment 0
URL: <?xml version="1.0" ?><?xml-styleshee...
Is indeed a regression. It happened somewhere in October 2009.
On 24 Oct 2009. Could it be Bug 516906? :)
It is bug 516906 since that removed nsXMLElement::IsLink. I imagine this bug is invalid since that bug was an intentional change.
Indeed
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 15 years ago
Resolution: --- → INVALID
I am very disappointed the support of nsXMLElement::IsLink has been removed by bug 516906. What is the solution to make a simple link with XML ?
Thanks for your help
Thanks to XBL that can insert the <xhtml:a> element dynamically without touching XML files !
So, if I understand well, I should not try to use XLink on FF as it is not planned to be supported soon.
Yup. Xlink at this point seems like a technology that simply isn't requested enough that it's worth our effort to support it. Similar to XForms and XHTML2.
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