Closed Bug 780882 Opened 12 years ago Closed 12 years ago

Attribute nodes returned by XPath Evaluator no longer have child nodes

Categories

(Firefox :: Untriaged, defect)

Product:
Firefox
Component:
Untriaged
Version:
14 Branch
Platform:
x86_64
Windows 7
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED WONTFIX

People

(Reporter: claude, Unassigned)

References

Details

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.60 Safari/537.1

Steps to reproduce:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <title>XPath Attribute Bug</title>
    <script type="text/javascript">
    var doc = document.implementation.createDocument (null, 'top', null);
    var body = document.createElement('body');
    body.setAttribute('id', 'abc');
    doc.documentElement.appendChild(body);
    var aNode = doc.getElementById('abc');
    var aExpr = "@id";
    var xpe = new XPathEvaluator();
    var nsResolver = xpe.createNSResolver(doc.ownerDocument == null ? doc.documentElement : doc.ownerDocument.documentElement);
    var result = xpe.evaluate(aExpr, aNode, nsResolver, 0, null);
    var node = result.iterateNext();    
    var nodetext = "";
    for(var i = 0; i < node.childNodes.length; i++)
        { 
        if(node.childNodes[i].nodeValue != null)
        {
        nodetext += node.childNodes[i].nodeValue;
        }
        }
    alert(nodetext);
    </script>
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>


Actual results:

The alert outputted nothing.


Expected results:

The alert should have outputted 'abc'.
This was changed by Bug 737122.
Blocks: 737122
You can use the `value` property of the attribute instead.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 12 years ago
Resolution: --- → WONTFIX
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