Subj : E4X FAILED ASSERTION in Kit.codeBug(Kit.java:425)
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : ant
Date : Tue Jan 11 2005 04:08 am

Is it valid to try to modify the contents of an XML element selected
with the dot-dot operator?

For example, using the msg defined below, if i try:

msg..s = "foo"

I get an assertion failed, whereas specifying the full path works fine:

msg.soap::Body.ns::reverse.s = "foo"

Thanks for any help.

....ant

Complete details are:

js> msg
<soapenv:Envelope
xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/"
xmlns:soapenc="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/"
xmlns:xsd="http://www
..w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
<soapenv:Header/>
<soapenv:Body>
<p728:reverse xmlns:p728="http://ejbs">
<s>petra</s>
</p728:reverse>
</soapenv:Body>
</soapenv:Envelope>
js> soap = new Namespace("http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/")
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/
js> ns = new Namespace("http://ejbs")
http://ejbs
js> msg..s = "foo"
java.lang.IllegalStateException: FAILED ASSERTION
at org.mozilla.javascript.Kit.codeBug(Kit.java:425)
at org.mozilla.javascript.xmlimpl.XMLName.set(XMLName.java:130)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.refSet(ScriptRuntime.java:1516)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java:2828)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java:2164)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:140)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:304)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:2769)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.Interpreter.interpret(Interpreter.java:2145)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.call(InterpretedFunction.java:140)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.InterpretedFunction.exec(InterpretedFunction.java:149)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.Context.evaluateString(Context.java:1220)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.evaluateScript(Main.java:453)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.processSource(Main.java:341)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.processFiles(Main.java:160)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main$IProxy.run(Main.java:83)
at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.call(Context.java:540)
at
org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.call(ContextFactory.java:414)
at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.exec(Main.java:140)
at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.main(Main.java:112)

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