Re: XPath on DOM nodes not inserted in the owner document

Jonas Sicking wrote:
> Martin Honnen wrote:
>> Mozilla and Opera 9 behave differently here, with Mozilla the XPath / 
>> evaluated relatively to a node with no parent node does not find any 
>> node while with Opera 9 the node itself is returned as the "root node".
> 
> Have you tested in recent nightlies? We have actually changed our 
> behavior here to make it more predictable. Each orphaned subtree is more 
> or less considered its own document. So evaluating '/' in that subtree 
> will return the root of that subtree.

No, I did not look at nighties so far but a test now shows that the 
behaviour is indeed different to the release builds.

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	Martin Honnen
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