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Bug 17968 - Removing remaining mention of Element.setAttributeNode()
Summary: Removing remaining mention of Element.setAttributeNode()
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Alias: None
Product: WHATWG
Classification: Unclassified
Component: HTML (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Hardware: Other other
: P3 normal
Target Milestone: Unsorted
Assignee: Ian 'Hixie' Hickson
QA Contact: contributor
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Reported: 2012-07-18 07:25 UTC by contributor
Modified: 2012-09-28 22:42 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Description contributor 2012-07-18 07:25:21 UTC
This was was cloned from bug 6689 as part of operation convergence.
Originally filed: 2009-03-12 13:56:00 +0000
Original reporter: Henri Sivonen <hsivonen@iki.fi>

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 #0   Henri Sivonen                                   2009-03-12 13:56:00 +0000 
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The spec says that Element.setAttributeNode() lower cases the attribute name. It doesn't make sense for a method on Element to mutate the attribute node.

Either the spec shouldn't prescribe lower casing for attribute nodes or the lower casing should take place in Document.createAttribute().
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 #1   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2009-04-01 01:37:18 +0000 
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delaying dealing with this until Web DOM Core has tried removing Attr nodes, since then it might be a non-issue.
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 #2   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2009-08-08 01:27:20 +0000 
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Delaying further since Web DOM Core is in low-maintenance mode awaiting an active editor.
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 #3   Maciej Stachowiak                               2010-03-14 13:17:04 +0000 
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This bug predates the HTML Working Group Decision Policy.

If you are satisfied with the resolution of this bug, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If
you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document:
   http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html

This bug is now being moved to VERIFIED. Please respond within two weeks. If this bug is not closed, reopened or escalated within two weeks, it may be marked as NoReply and will no longer be considered a pending comment.
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 #4   Ian 'Hixie' Hickson                             2012-02-27 18:15:39 +0000 
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(It's in a non-normative note.)
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Comment 1 contributor 2012-09-28 22:37:28 UTC
Checked in as WHATWG revision r7423.
Check-in comment: setAttributeNode() is dead.
http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=7422&to=7423