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Bug 16424 - Invalid return value specified for the pre-instert algorithm
Summary: Invalid return value specified for the pre-instert algorithm
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WebAppsWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: DOM (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All All
: P2 critical
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Ms2ger
QA Contact: public-webapps-bugzilla
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Reported: 2012-03-18 17:14 UTC by manish.tripathi.777
Modified: 2012-03-18 18:45 UTC (History)
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Description manish.tripathi.777 2012-03-18 17:14:30 UTC 
According to http://dvcs.w3.org/hg/domcore/raw-file/tip/Overview.html#concept-node-pre-insert , step 8, pre-insert algorithm returns a "child", but in the context of that particular alrogitm, a "child" is a reference node, NOT the inserted node.

Therefore, step 8 should read: "8. Return <i>node</i>."

This is critical, because the value returned by pre-insert algoritm is passed on to and returned by the Node.appendChild(node) and Node.insertBefore(node, child) method.

If implemented as is, Node.appendChild(node) will ALWAYS return null, whereas it must return the inserted node.