Re: Can I use 'about:blank' as target document?

Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote:
> Jonas Sicking wrote:
>> Michael Vincent van Rantwijk, MultiZilla wrote:
>>>> That way you don't need to call .importNode on each of the nodes in 
>>>> the resulting fragment. That is the whole point of being able to 
>>>> specify a target document.
>>>
>>> Sure, but that won't work for people like me, who need to modify the 
>>> DOM after the transformation.
>>
>> You are free to modify the returned DOM. It's all yours and you can do 
>> whatever you want with it, including inserting it into a displayed 
>> document or ripping it apart.
>>
>>>> Since it sounds like you are getting the result you are expecting 
>>>> from the XSLT transform, you're just then having problems displaying 
>>>> those nodes, this is likely not an XSLT related problem.
>>>
>>> It is, sort of.  It is a limitation for when the target document is 
>>> 'about:blank', but I can use it now (after I removed the first text 
>>> (rss/rdf) element/node from the source document). Good enough for 
>>> testing.
>>
>> Well, you said the transformation succeeded, no? So everything after 
>> that is not XSLT code.
> 
> Yes, the transformation succeeded indeed, but it fails to insert the 
> resulting nodes into about:blank targets i.e. it needs an XMLDocument as 
> target document or it will fail.
> 
> You can simply try this (for example) with any rss feed from the 
> Internet.  Transform it to anything you like, but make sure you use an 
> about:blank target, and watch it fail.
> 
>> But it sounds like you've gotten things to work so it's all good then.
> 
> Only after removing the first text node (rss/RDF) so it is really more 
> like a hack.

I really don't understand what you are trying to do. Please provide a 
full testcase of what is failing. The smaller the better.

/ Jonas