12927 2011-06-09 18:22:16 +0000 Define what "content attribute's document" means 2011-08-11 17:50:54 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG LC1 HTML5 spec unspecified PC All RESOLVED FIXED P2 normal --- 1 bzbarsky ian ayg ian jan.varga mike public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 49401 0 bzbarsky 2011-06-09 18:22:16 +0000 http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/multipage/urls.html#reflect when talking about attributes of type HTMLElement has this text: Let candidate be the element that the document.getElementById() method would find when called on the content attribute's document if it was passed as its argument the current value of the corresponding content attribute. Ignoring for the moment the "if it was" which should be "if it were", I have no idea what "content attribute's document" means. Attributes don't have documents. Is the ownerDocument of the element involved meant? Or the document the element is in, if any? Or something else? 49430 1 ian 2011-06-10 19:26:20 +0000 This is defined here: http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/complete/infrastructure.html#dom-trees "The Document of a Node (such as an element) is the Document that the Node's ownerDocument IDL attribute returns. When a Node is in a Document then that Document is always the Node's Document, and the Node's ownerDocument IDL attribute thus always returns that Document." Leaving open for the typo. 49465 2 bzbarsky 2011-06-11 00:06:45 +0000 This text is really not clear because it's talking about the "content attribute", not the "content Attr node".... and the attribute is not a Node. For that matter, Attr will stop being a Node in the near future. If you really want the ownerDocument, I'd talk about the element's ownerDoument (and perhaps make this a link to the definition of "element's document" if you don't actually use the term "ownerDocument" here). But on a separate note, I don't understand why it's using the ownerDocument in this situation instead of the document the element is in, if any..... 49519 3 ayg 2011-06-13 20:38:19 +0000 (In reply to comment #2) > But on a separate note, I don't understand why it's using the ownerDocument in > this situation instead of the document the element is in, if any..... Is it possible for an element to be in a document other than its ownerDocument? If so, how? 49536 4 bzbarsky 2011-06-13 22:56:51 +0000 > Is it possible for an element to be in a document other than its ownerDocument? It's possible for an element to not be in a document at all while its ownerDocument is non-null. 52814 5 mike 2011-08-04 05:04:24 +0000 mass-moved component to LC1 54709 6 ian 2011-08-11 17:49:33 +0000 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.html Status: Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: The content attribute and the Attr node are one and the same, but you have a good point about Attr moving away from being a Node. I've explicitly defined "document of a content attribute" now. Also fixed the typo. 54710 7 contributor 2011-08-11 17:50:54 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r6417. Check-in comment: Attr is moving away from being a Node http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=6416&to=6417