Bug 117394 – DOMSerializer creates invalid XML when setAttributeNS() has been used

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: CONFIGURATION CHANGED
• Component: DOM

[Thomas W.]

== Overview ==

When serializing a document where attributes have been added using .setAttributeNs(), the serialization is invalid XML.


== Steps to Reproduce ==

Execute the following code:

  var doc = (new DOMParser()).parseFromString("<test xmlns='http://www.example.com'/>","text/xml");
  doc.documentElement.setAttributeNS("http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace","id","abc");
  doc.documentElement.setAttributeNS("http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace","foo","bar");
  console.log((new XMLSerializer()).serializeToString(doc));

(can be found at http://jsfiddle.net/c4jBw/)


== Actual Results ==

  <test xmlns="http://www.example.com" id="abc" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/XML/1998/namespace" foo="bar" xmlns="http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace"/> 


== Expected Results ==

  <test xmlns="http://www.example.com" xml:id="abc" a0:foo="bar" xmlns:a0="http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace"/>


== Software Version ==

First encountered with Safari 5.1.7 (7534.57.2) on Windows 7


== Additional Comments ==

The main problem are three xmlns attributes.  The second problem is that the added attributes are in the null namespace.

The correct example output is taken from Firefox 21.

[Rob Buis]

This seems rather like other serializing bugs, like bug 19121? I am quite sure that fixing that one fixes this one too.

[Lucas Forschler]

Mass moving XML DOM bugs to the "DOM" Component.

[Ahmad Saleem]

*** Safari Technical Preview 151 ****

> In JSFiddle:

"<test xmlns=\"http://www.example.com\" xml:id=\"abc\" NS1:foo=\"bar\" xmlns:NS1=\"http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace\"/>"

> In Browser Console:

<test xmlns="http://www.example.com" xml:id="abc" NS1:foo="bar" xmlns:NS1="http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace"/>


** Chrome Canary 106 ***

> In JSFiddle:

"&lt;test xmlns=\&quot;http://www.example.com\&quot; xml:id=\&quot;abc\&quot; xmlns:ns1=\&quot;http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace\&quot; ns1:foo=\&quot;bar\&quot;/&gt;"

> In Browser Console:

<test xmlns="http://www.example.com" xml:id="abc" xmlns:ns1="http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace" ns1:foo="bar"/>


*** Firefox Nightly 105 ***

> In JSFiddle:

"&lt;test xmlns=\&quot;http://www.example.com\&quot; xml:id=\&quot;abc\&quot; a0:foo=\&quot;bar\&quot; xmlns:a0=\&quot;http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace\&quot;/&gt;"

> In Browser Console:

<test xmlns="http://www.example.com" xml:id="abc" NS1:foo="bar" xmlns:NS1="http://www.example.com/dummy/namespace"/>

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I am not sure now web-spec so I am going to just post updated results. Thanks!

[Ryosuke Niwa]

This appears to be working now.