[giow] (3) Match reality

Fixing https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=20656 Affected topics: DOM APIs git-svn-id: http://svn.whatwg.org/webapps@7800 340c8d12-0b0e-0410-8428-c7bf67bfef74
whatwg · Apr 10, 2013 · 7346893 · 7346893
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diff --git a/complete.html b/complete.html
@@ -8694,7 +8694,10 @@ <h4 id=dom-tree-accessors><span class=secno>3.1.4 </span><dfn>DOM tree accessors
    incumbent body element</a> as its two arguments respectively,
    then abort these steps.</li>
 
-   <li>Otherwise, <a href=#the-body-element-0>the body element</a> is null. Append
+   <li>Otherwise, if there is no root element, throw a <code><a href=#hierarchyrequesterror>HierarchyRequestError</a></code> exception
+   and abort these steps.</li>
+
+   <li>Otherwise, <a href=#the-body-element-0>the body element</a> is null, but there's a root element. Append
    the new value to the root element.</li>
 
   </ol></div>

diff --git a/index b/index
@@ -8694,7 +8694,10 @@ partial /*sealed*/ interface <dfn id=document>Document</dfn> {
    incumbent body element</a> as its two arguments respectively,
    then abort these steps.</li>
 
-   <li>Otherwise, <a href=#the-body-element-0>the body element</a> is null. Append
+   <li>Otherwise, if there is no root element, throw a <code><a href=#hierarchyrequesterror>HierarchyRequestError</a></code> exception
+   and abort these steps.</li>
+
+   <li>Otherwise, <a href=#the-body-element-0>the body element</a> is null, but there's a root element. Append
    the new value to the root element.</li>
 
   </ol></div>

diff --git a/source b/source
@@ -8478,7 +8478,10 @@ partial /*sealed*/ interface <dfn>Document</dfn> {
    incumbent body element</span> as its two arguments respectively,
    then abort these steps.</li>
 
-   <li>Otherwise, <span>the body element</span> is null. Append
+   <li>Otherwise, if there is no root element, throw a <code>HierarchyRequestError</code> exception
+   and abort these steps.</li>
+
+   <li>Otherwise, <span>the body element</span> is null, but there's a root element. Append
    the new value to the root element.</li>
 
   </ol>