Bug 17091 – doctype.ownerDocument is null after creation (Acid3 bug)

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: New Bugs

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

doctype.ownerDocument is null after creation (Acid3 bug)

This should be an easy fix.

Test 98: expected: [object HTMLDocument], got: null - doctype's ownerDocument was wrong after creation

    function () {
      // test 98: XHTML and the DOM
      // (special test)
      var doctype = document.implementation.createDocumentType("html", "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN", "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd");
      assertEquals(doctype.ownerDocument, document, "doctype's ownerDocument was wrong after creation");
      var doc = document.implementation.createDocument("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "html", doctype);
      doc.documentElement.appendChild(doc.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "head"));
      doc.documentElement.appendChild(doc.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "body"));
      var t = doc.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "title");
      doc.documentElement.firstChild.appendChild(t);
      // ok we have a conforming XHTML1 doc in |doc| now.
      assertEquals(doctype.ownerDocument, doc, "doctype's ownerDocument didn't change when it was assigned to another document");
      assertEquals(doc.title, "", "document had unexpected title");
      t.textContent = "Sparrow";
      assertEquals(doc.title, "Sparrow", "document.title did not update dynamically");
      doc.body.appendChild(doc.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "form"));
      assertEquals(doc.forms.length, 1, "document.forms not updated after inserting a form");
      return 7;
    },

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

Hum...

    // Returns the DOM ownerDocument attribute. This method never returns NULL, except in the case 
    // of (1) a Document node or (2) a DocumentType node that is not used with any Document yet. 
    virtual Document* ownerDocument() const;

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

This test is clearly wrong according to the DOM Level 2 Core spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#Level-2-Core-DOM-createDocType

Ian, if you agree (and plan to change the test) feel free to close this INVALID.

[Ian 'Hixie' Hickson]

I fixed this yesterday, shortly after adding the test. Sorry for the confusion.