[giow] (1) Make HTMLElement-type reflecting IDL attributes only set t…

…he attribute if the element they're being set to would then match the attribute. Fixing http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=12945 git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@6568 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Sep 22, 2011 · f696ece · f696ece
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@@ -8200,7 +8200,10 @@ <h4 id=reflecting-content-attributes-in-idl-attributes><span class=secno>2.8.1 <
 
    <li>Otherwise, it must return <var title="">candidate</var>.</li>
 
-  </ol><p>On setting, if the given element has an <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code> attribute, then the content attribute must
+  </ol><p>On setting, if the given element has an <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code> attribute, and has the same <a href=#home-subtree>home
+  subtree</a> as the element of the attribute being set, and the
+  given element is the first element in that <a href=#home-subtree>home subtree</a>
+  whose <a href=#concept-id title=concept-ID>ID</a> is the value of that <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code> attribute, then the content attribute must
   be set to the value of that <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code>
   attribute. Otherwise, the content attribute must be set to the empty
   string.</p>

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -8064,7 +8064,10 @@ a.setAttribute('href', 'http://example.com/'); // change the content attribute d
 
    <li>Otherwise, it must return <var title="">candidate</var>.</li>
 
-  </ol><p>On setting, if the given element has an <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code> attribute, then the content attribute must
+  </ol><p>On setting, if the given element has an <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code> attribute, and has the same <a href=#home-subtree>home
+  subtree</a> as the element of the attribute being set, and the
+  given element is the first element in that <a href=#home-subtree>home subtree</a>
+  whose <a href=#concept-id title=concept-ID>ID</a> is the value of that <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code> attribute, then the content attribute must
   be set to the value of that <code title=attr-id><a href=#the-id-attribute>id</a></code>
   attribute. Otherwise, the content attribute must be set to the empty
   string.</p>

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@@ -8038,6 +8038,10 @@ is conforming depends on which specs apply, and leaves it at that. -->
   </ol>
 
   <p>On setting, if the given element has an <code
+  title="attr-id">id</code> attribute, and has the same <span>home
+  subtree</span> as the element of the attribute being set, and the
+  given element is the first element in that <span>home subtree</span>
+  whose <span title="concept-ID">ID</span> is the value of that <code
   title="attr-id">id</code> attribute, then the content attribute must
   be set to the value of that <code title="attr-id">id</code>
   attribute. Otherwise, the content attribute must be set to the empty