Regression: dojo.html.getElementsByClass returns nothing if parentNode is not part of the DOM

[anonymous]

Execute the following in Firebug:

foo = dojo.html.createNodesFromText('<div><span class="bar"></span></div>')[0] dojo.html.getElementsByClass("bar", foo)

foo is a div containing a span with class "bar". So you would expect getElementsByClass("bar", foo) to return the span. However it returns an empty array in Dojo 0.3.1.

This worked in Dojo 0.3.0

What may be happening is that the new XQuery implementation of dojo.html.getElementsByClass may not work if the parent is not connected to the DOM?

[dylan]

I suggest we disable the xpath version of this until we can fully test it... Bryan, can you handle this.

[dylan]

(In [6203]) references #456, references #959, temporary workaround until we figure out why the xpath version of getElementsByClass does not work 100% reliably in firefox

[bill]

This is working as per temporary fix above.

[Adam Peller]

getElementsByClass() was replaced in 0.9 by dojo.query. Not sure if we support createNodesFromText or if this interaction would still fail