Re: External node troubles [FF3 RC1]

noon wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Maybe you're unfamiliar with the DOMParser?

I've seen it a few times.  See 
<http://bonsai.mozilla.org/cvslog.cgi?file=mozilla/content/base/src/nsDOMParser.cpp&rev=HEAD&mark=1.64,1.52,1.47,1.45,1.44>.

> parseFromString returns a
> DOM document. http://www.xulplanet.com/references/objref/DOMParser.html
> If I am mistaken in some way, please let me know.

It returns a DOM document, sure.  Please reread the paragraph you quoted above?

> On another note, the replacing the rs function with the following code
> works just fine in FF2

The ownerDocument check in evaluate() postdates Firefox 2.  Before that the code 
didn't follow the spec.

-Boris