Re: External node troubles [FF3 RC1]

noon wrote:
> // html is the responseText from my XHR
> $('test').adoptNode = html.split(/<body[^>]*>((?:.|\n)*)<\/body>/i)
> [1]; // xmlserializer needs a dom object

You're really assigning that to adoptNode?  That's a little odd...  And why not 
use the responseXML instead of parsing it yourself?  In any case...

> var alt = $x("//IMG/@alt", doc); // result: Node cannot be used in a
> document other than the one in which it was created

You're passing |doc| as the context to document.evaluate.  The node passed to 
document.evaluate as the context must either be |document| or a node whose 
ownerDocument is |document|.  That's pretty clearly documented in the DOM XPath 
spec.

> var alt1 = $x("//IMG/@alt", document.adoptNode(doc)); // result:
> Operation is not supported (NS_ERROR_DOM_NOT_SUPPORTED_ERR)

You can't adopt Document nodes.  You _can_ adopt doc.documentElement, though, 
and that might be what you want here.  Again, all that is clearly documented in 
the DOM specs.

-Boris