dojo.query throws TypeError on some not-found queries

[bitranch]

This is with svn trunk as of this morning.

When an id isn't in the document, equivalent queries have very different results. For example, this query returns an empty NodeList:

dojo.query("#domaindata");

This query throws TypeError: elem is null:

dojo.query("div#domaindata");

The error is in dojo/_base/query.js line 789 in getSimpleFilterFunc(). It looks like the test is assuming an element exists even though the result set is empty.

[bill]

as per today's meeting, punting these core bugs

[nic]

[cla][patch] now dojo.query("tagName#elemId") returns [] if elemId doesn't exist

[alex]

(In [16616]) adding existance test to ID filtering. Fixes #7368. !strict

[alex]

thanks for the patch, this fix will go out for 1.3