Subj : Re: E4X: calling appendChild method with existing child as the argument
To   : Martin.Honnen
From : Brendan Eich
Date : Sat Apr 09 2005 11:45 am

Martin Honnen wrote:
> 
>> SpiderMonkey is correct if you follow ECMA-357 9.2.1.2 XMLList 
>> [[Put]], in particular 2(g)(ii)(2).
> 
> 
> If Spidermonkey is correct should it be able to deal with "recursive" 
> XML like the following?
> 
> var god = <god>Kibo</god>;
> var infiniteGod = god.appendChild(god);
> print('infiniteGod.nodeKind(): ' + infiniteGod.nodeKind());
> print(god.toXMLString());


I knew you were going to ask that ;-).  XML should be tree structured. 
Any cycles or join points are malformed, and cycles mean iloops.

This certainly makes it look more and more like a spec bug (unless I 
have misread the spec badly, many times over).

Bcc'ing spec pals again.

/be

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