Node::childNodes should never be null. If a node has no children, it should be a nodelist with no nodes in it. See the above test ("Run Passive Tests"), and the DOM spec: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-DOM-Level-1/level-one-core.html#ID-1950641247

Yup. It's just laziness on my part. Since this isn't breaking anyone, I'm moving it to M8.

I have a question into the DOM WG, since I believe it might be a mistake that the spec requires that all nodes (even those that can't have children) have a childNodes list under them. My recollection is that we decided that all *elements* should always return a valid childNodes list, but I think it might have inadvertantly been written up as all nodes. Pushing off the bug till I get an answer.

Node::getAttributes() does the same thing

Yes, but Node::getAttributes() does that as per spec. It should return null for all but Elements.

I have a fix in my tree. Still waiting for the tree to be open and green at a point where I'm ready to check in.

Fix checked in on 8/25/1999.

QA Contact massive update.

Verified fixed, Linux apprunner 1999-10-08-08-M11.