Slight bug with SVG XML getting added whitespace

Brett Zamir <[email protected]> Wed, 13 May 2009 06:41:06 +0800
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi,

In doing some testing for JavaScript SAX2 parser 
(http://code.google.com/p/jssaxparser/ ), I discovered that in one of 
our tests (which checked for identity among attributes within the 
built-in parser and our own which started from 
document.implementation.createDocument), when using SVG, certain 
attributes were altered by Firefox. While FF 3.5 avoids the issue of 
"scale(4)" turning into "scale(4, 4)", the built-in DOMParser() still 
auto-changes the whitespace.

// No space
var text = '<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg">'+
		'<g transform="translate(20,20) scale(4)"></g></svg>';

// The attribute value now has an extra space within the translate() 
function
var t = new DOMParser().parseFromString(text,"text/xml");
alert(t.getElementById('a').getAttribute('transform'));

// Here it is again showing the whole document
alert(new XMLSerializer().serializeToString(new 
DOMParser().parseFromString(text,"text/xml"))); <svg 
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"><g transform="translate(20, 20) 
scale(4)"/></svg>

If you change the SVG namespace (to make this some other XML), the 
attribute no longer adds a space.

So, while this issue doesn't apparently affect functionality, it still 
causes problems for those which reflect on XML...

File a bug?

Brett