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Posted to j-users@xerces.apache.org by Randall Theobald <ra...@us.ibm.com> on 2005/10/20 21:03:38 UTC

cloning doctype element in HTMLDocumentImpl

Calling org.apache.html.dom.HTMLDocumentImpl.cloneNode(true) when it 
contains a <!doctype ...> element results in a DOMException being thrown 
from org.apache.xerces.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.importNode(...). 

CoreDocumentImpl uses a private importNode(...) method to do the cloning, 
which takes a flag of whether a cloning operation is taking place. There 
is a disconnect going from the HTMLDocumentImpl.cloneNode() call to the 
importNode call since the importNode method 'isCloning' flag is false, 
which causes the importing of a DOCUMENT node type to fail.

Is this a known problem? I ran into it while using HttpUnit.

thanks,

Randall Theobald 
Staff Software Engineer, Austin, TX 
IBM WebSphere Process Server Development 
(512) 838-9349, t/l: 678-9349 
randallt@us.ibm.com