589134 - In a HTML context, getElementsByTagName does not match all SVG tags

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 499656

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100819 Minefield/4.0b5pre
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0b5pre) Gecko/20100819 Minefield/4.0b5pre

When you try to use document.getElementsByTagName in an HTML document to match some SVG elements, it fails to mach some of them. If you do the same inside a SVG Document, there are no problems, all elements can be matched.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Open the joined HTML test case, elements marked with a 0 are not matched 
2. Open the joined SVG test case, all elements are matched

Actual Results:  
You can not select some SVG elements through getElementsByTagName inside a HTML document

Expected Results:  
You should always be able to select SVG elements through getElementsByTagName whatever the document type (HTML or SVG)

Comment 1

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

Attachment: HTML Test case

The elements marked with 0 are not matched.
The elements marked with 1 are matched

Comment 2

[Jeremie Patonnier :Jeremie]

Attachment: SVG Test case

Comment 3

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

This is a duplicate of the bug on implementing the HTML5 behavior for getElementsByTagName (where the case-folding happens during matching, not at call-time).