Editorial: clarify document argument of "clone a node" #1332
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This argument is only passed recursively or from importNode(). And importNode() does not work for documents, so whenever the node argument is a document, the document argument has to be the node argument.
dbaron
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Dec 12, 2024
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| <li><p>Set <var>copy</var>'s <a for=Node>node document</a> and <var>document</var> to | |||
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Wasn't this text needed to make a cloned document have the right node document (itself, not the document it was cloned from)?
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Thanks, that's indeed what it was for. Should be good now (and hopefully clearer too).
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Yes, agree the new version is clearer.
dbaron
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This argument is only passed recursively or from importNode(). And importNode() does not work for documents, so whenever the node argument is a document, the document argument has to be the node argument.
(I want to fix the other aspects of this algorithm too. But I thought I'd make this in isolation while I spotted it.)