[DOM4] Mutation algorithm imposed order on document children

Elliott, All - please use the www-dom@w3.org list for DOM4 discussions 
<http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-dom/>.

(Elliott, since that spec is still in the draft phase, you should 
probably use the latest Editor's Draft 
<http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html> instead of 
the version in w3.org/TR/)

-Thanks, AB

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Subject: 	[DOM4] Mutation algorithm imposed order on document children
Resent-Date: 	Tue, 12 Jun 2012 01:01:51 +0000
Resent-From: 	<public-webapps@w3.org>
Date: 	Mon, 11 Jun 2012 16:39:36 -0700
From: 	ext Elliott Sprehn <esprehn@gmail.com>
To: 	<public-webapps@w3.org>



I'm working on places where Webkit doesn't follow the DOM4 mutation 
algorithm and one of the bugs is not throwing an exception when a 
doctype node is inserted after an element in a document (or other 
permutations of the same situation).

https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=88682
http://www.w3.org/TR/domcore/#mutation-algorithms

After discussing this with some other contributors there were questions 
on why we're enforcing the order of the document child nodes. 
Specifically since inserting a doctype node doesn't actually change the 
doctype so this situation is very unlikely (possibly never happens) in 
the wild. Not implementing this keeps the code simpler for a case that 
developers likely never see.

Can we leave the behavior when your document is out of order unspecified?

- Elliott

Received on Tuesday, 12 June 2012 12:15:54 UTC