Bug #48168 for HTML-DOM: walking DOM ignores comments

Fri Jul 24 13:54:11 2009 hippietrail [...] yahoo.com - Ticket created

Subject:

walking DOM ignores comments

I need to parse some of the comments in a web page. I start from a particular node then walk the DOM backwards by following previousNode or parentNode until I arrive at a comment. Problem is the comment node is never hit. If I print each nodeType as it's walking I only every see 1 (element) and 3 (text). Comments seem to be totally invisible.

Mon Jul 27 20:00:43 2009 $_ = 'spro^^*%*^6ut# [...] &$%*c>#!^!#&!pan.org'; y/a-z.@//cd; print - Correspondence added

On Fri Jul 24 13:54:11 2009, hippietrail wrote: Show quoted text

> I need to parse some of the comments in a web page. > I start from a particular node then walk the DOM backwards by following > previousNode or parentNode until I arrive at a comment. > Problem is the comment node is never hit. If I print each nodeType as > it's walking I only every see 1 (element) and 3 (text). > > Comments seem to be totally invisible.

Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I never actually noticed because none of my code relies on comments. :-) Anyway, you’ll see an authors/id/S/SP/SPROUT/HTML-DOM-0.026.tar.gz arriving on CPAN soon with support for parsing comments.

Mon Jul 27 20:00:45 2009 The RT System itself - Status changed from 'new' to 'open'

Mon Jul 27 20:00:47 2009 $_ = 'spro^^*%*^6ut# [...] &$%*c>#!^!#&!pan.org'; y/a-z.@//cd; print - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'