On Jul 12, 2008, at 12:20 AM, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote:
For what it's worth, it looks to me like Gecko returns the default
namespace if "" is passed to lookupNamespaceURI. It's not clear to
me
whether that's correct per the DOM3 Core spec.
It is, because it requires that for `null`, and requires to treat
empty
strings the same as `null` whenever namespace names are specified.
WebKit returns null if "" is passed to lookupNamespaceURI. I was going
to fix it, but could not find any reference to this behavior in DOM 3
Core. The closest thing I found was "In programming languages where
empty strings can be differentiated from null, empty strings, when
given as a namespace URI, are converted to null" - but the parameter
to lookupNamespaceURI is not a namespace URI.
So, it seems to me that WebKit behavior is correct by the letter of
the spec.
- WBR, Alexey Proskuryakov
