[BATIK-1042] Batik requires 'splitText' to have a parent node

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 1.7
• Component/s: SVG DOM, SVG Rasterizer, SVG Viewer
• Environment: Linux, SL/RHEL 6, Java 1.6.0_24
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: EL
• Created: 16/Apr/13 10:38
• Updated: 16/Apr/13 10:38

Description

'splitText' fails and throws an exception ("A text node needs a parent node in order to be split") when the text node is created directly in 'document'. It doesn't appear to be a requirement of 'splitText' that it should be lower down in the DOM. This isn't an issue in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, Opera, and IE9+.

This code works in the 5 major browsers, but fails in squiggle (and fails silently in the rasteriser):

var ltnode, rtnode;
...
ltnode = svg_doc.createTextNode(input); // 'svg_doc' is 'document'
while(1)

{ sindx = ltnode.nodeValue.indexOf(" ", 1); if(sindx < 0) finished = true; // no more spaces; 'ltnode' is the last word else rtnode = ltnode.splitText(sindx); // squiggle throws exception ... }

When the exception is thrown, the debugger shoes 'svg_doc' as 'org.apache.batik.dom.svg.SVGOMDocument'. The Chrome debugger shows it as 'document' at the same point in execution.