691611 - firstChild.value doesn't seem to work properly when firstChild is a textnode.

Status: UNCONFIRMED

(Core :: General, defect)

Description

[carljohanf]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.0; rv:7.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/7.0.1
Build ID: 20110928134238

Steps to reproduce:

I recently installed latest version of firefox (7.01) And it told me when running my code that nodeValue, nodeName and getAttributeNodeNS() was deprecated i'm not even using the later one so I don't know why it came up.

So I changed this code:

	var XMLPath = g.localTemplatesXML.getElementsByTagName('xml')[0];
	XMLPath = XMLPath.firstChild.nodeValue;

To this code:

	var XMLPath = g.localTemplatesXML.getElementsByTagName('xml')[0];
	XMLPath = XMLPath.firstChild.value;

where firstChild is a text node loaded from a file into a DOM-structure
by an Ajax-page-loading-function. (It's working perfectly with .nodeValue)

textnode looks something like this:

<xml>something/xml/somefile.xml</xml>





Actual results:

XMLPath becomes undefined


Expected results:

XMLPath should contain the information inside the textnode as it does with nodeValue.

Comment 1

[j.j.]

(In reply to carljohanf from comment #0)
> And it told me when
> running my code that nodeValue, nodeName and getAttributeNodeNS() was
> deprecated i'm not even using the later one so I don't know why it came up.

Those properties aren't deprecated, maybe you misunderstood.
What's the message exactly?

Comment 2

[:aceman]

Could you attach a file having this code so we can see the message, or is there an URL where we can test this?

Comment 3

[j.j.]

Dup of bug 674437?

Comment 4

[carljohanf]

Maybe i missunderstand.. It says something like:

nodeName in attribute is deprecated use name instead..

nodeValue in attribute is deprecated use value instead..

What does that mean?

Comment 5

[j.j.]

no idea, not my faculty. Moving to "Core"

Comment 6

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

It means you're using Attribute nodes.  E.g. doing element.attributes[0].nodeName.

If you're using XPath, then XPath itself might be doing that.