Re: XSLT no longer display the transformed elements

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk wrote:
>>> And you should never combine html and xml in the same document, that 
>>> is not supported and will probably lead to lots of nice trouble. 
>>
>> Ok, but it worked for five long months, but that's also when I changed 
>> something and forgot to add .firstChild (that basically skips the html 
>> element from the document fragment). I just hate making stupid little 
>> mistakes with a huge side effect (:
> 
> I'm not sure what you're saying here. Did you use html (rather then 
> xhtml) for a long time and it did work, but then stopped?

No, we use XHTML from day one. What I tried to explain was that my 
fathers source code used:

documentElement.appendChild(documentFragment.firstChild);

but I somehow changed that to:

documentElement.appendChild(documentFragment);

(must be my mistake) but that makes it append the document fragment 
*including* the HTML element, which is exactly what now fails to work, 
but it worked for at least five months.

> Even though combining html and xml isn't supported it does work most of 
> the time. But I still strongly recommend against it.
> 
>>> There are no rules for how to render rss documents, so presumably CSS 
>>> rules apply. If you are in fact using xhtml then there is no real 
>>> reason the head element and everything under it should be hidden. Try 
>>> creating a normal xml file containing markup producing the same DOM 
>>> as the one you're building. Does the same thing happen then?
>>
>> This is clearly a new limitation/restriction in Mozilla, presumably 
>> introduced by some source code change, so I'm not going to try that, 
>> sorry.
> 
> Err.. So I was saying that there seems to be a bug in mozilla, not that 
> we have imposed any new restrictions.

Ah okay, sorry, me bad.

> You can test if there indeed is a bug, and then file a bug in bugzilla 
> so that we have a chance to fix it, by creating a testfile that produces 
> the same DOM as the one you're having trouble with.

Yeah, I should be able to make such test case, now that I know how it 
should work ;)

Thanks again,
Michael