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Bug 6689 - Removing remaining mention of Element.setAttributeNode()
Summary: Removing remaining mention of Element.setAttributeNode()
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: HTML WG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Silvia Pfeiffer
QA Contact: HTML WG Bugzilla archive list
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Keywords: NoReply
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Reported: 2009-03-12 13:56 UTC by Henri Sivonen
Modified: 2012-10-14 12:41 UTC (History)
5 users (show)

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Description Henri Sivonen 2009-03-12 13:56:00 UTC 
The spec says that Element.setAttributeNode() lower cases the attribute name. It doesn't make sense for a method on Element to mutate the attribute node.

Either the spec shouldn't prescribe lower casing for attribute nodes or the lower casing should take place in Document.createAttribute().
Comment 1 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-04-01 01:37:18 UTC 
delaying dealing with this until Web DOM Core has tried removing Attr nodes, since then it might be a non-issue.
Comment 2 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2009-08-08 01:27:20 UTC 
Delaying further since Web DOM Core is in low-maintenance mode awaiting an active editor.
Comment 3 Maciej Stachowiak 2010-03-14 13:17:04 UTC 
This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.
Comment 4 Ian 'Hixie' Hickson 2012-02-27 18:15:39 UTC 
(It's in a non-normative note.)
Comment 5 contributor 2012-07-18 07:25:25 UTC 
This bug was cloned to create bug 17968 as part of operation convergence.
Comment 6 Silvia Pfeiffer 2012-10-14 12:41:46 UTC 
EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If
you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of
this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would
like the Editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would
like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please
add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and
text for the Tracker Issue; or you may create a Tracker Issue
yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this
document:   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy-v2.html

Status: Accepted
Change Description:
https://github.com/w3c/html/commit/7075a12e2c8fbe4c83ccfbb1bc35d7c794d0986c
Rationale: accepted WHATWG change