Re: [DOMCore] minor wording problem for Document.importNode() from João Eiras on 2011-07-03 (www-dom@w3.org from July to September 2011)

From: João Eiras <joao.eiras@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, 03 Jul 2011 04:00:21 +0100
To: www-dom@w3.org
Message-ID: <op.vx0vyvuijz3wb9@coruscant>

>> But the clone algorithm can throw a DATA_CLONE_ERR, so the "must return
>> a clone" isn't, in general, possible.
>
> Should we support cloning Document and DocumentType objects? (There's an
> "<!--XXX wrong? -->" comment in the source.)
>
>

Cloning Document and DocumentType using cloneNode is supported in all major browsers. importNode however, should not allow Document to be imported, because a document can't be owned by another. A DocumentType can though.

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