Re: [Exist-open] RE: DOM appendChild broken

[Wolfgang M. <wol...@ex...>]

So far, I concentrated on document updates via XUpdate, and the XUpdate 
modification classes call non-standard DOM methods (appendChildren). We 
definitely need more testing to get the corresponding DOM methods work right.

Wolfgang


On Tuesday 25 May 2004 01:01, Piotr Kaminski wrote:
> I tried a few more tests, and something is definitely broken in eXist.
> Either it's picking the wrong gid for the new node being appended, or
> XMLUtil.getFirstChildId is incorrect.  I would guess the latter, since
> DocumentImpl.getTreeLevel can return maxDepth-1, and
> XMLUtil.getFirstChildId tries to getLevelStartPoint(maxDepth), which of
> course fails.
>
> Unfortunately, I don't grok the eXist data structure so I can't even
> hazard a fix.  Can someone more knowledgeable fix this one?  To reproduce
> the bug, try to appendChild to the DOM of any document in the database.
> It will either crash, or put the child in the wrong place.
>
> 		-- P.