The one good thing about the multiple TEXT nodes was that the memory usage before serialisation was minimised, since the Strings that were constants were preserved and isolated from the Strings that were dynamically generated (viewId, clientIds). By concatenating the TEXT nodes together, operations may be simpler and faster, but they're not interned or even internable.

Reverted back to native DOM cloning but this time the document's strict error checking is turned off. This way the cloning can complete even when the declared default namespace is not correct. ICE-6717 regression test used for replicating the DOM exception described by ICE-9379 is using http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml as the default namespace, the expected namespace being http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/.
Also, in DOMPartialViewContext.generateElementUpdateNotifications the operation's ID is used now to lookup the element to avoid ClassCastException in case the update is represented as a text node with the element's markup.

There are many instances of NullPointerException found in tomcat log - see below.

ICEfaces3/trunk revision# 36609
Server: tomcat6
Browser: FF3.6, IE8, GoogleChrome27

New failures: Many new failures, see attached Summary file.

NullPointerExceptions are visible in tomcat log when interacting with some of the test pages; as example, ace:accordion in h:dataTable - the error occurs when changing tab panes.

There are also errors in JS console (all browsers):
Chrome:
GET http://localhost:8080/accordion/RES_NOT_FOUND
404 (Not Found) accordionDataTbl.jsf:12
[window] Error [status: emptyResponse code:
200]: An empty response was received from the server.
Check server error logs. bridge-support.js.jsf:1805
[window] Error
[status: emptyResponse code: 200]: An empty response
was received from the server. Check server error logs.
bridge-support.js.jsf:1805

IE8:
[window] Error [status: malformedXML code: 200]: XML Parsing Error: Invalid xml declaration.
Location:
Line Number 2, Column 21:
<partial-response><?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
---------------------^

Server error:
Jul 9, 2013 3:32:39 AM com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy handleRenderException
SEVERE: Error Rendering View[/panelDynAttribute.xhtml]
java.lang.NullPointerException
at java.util.Hashtable.get(Hashtable.java:334)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.getIdentifier(CoreDocumentImpl.java:2005)
at com.sun.org.apache.xerces.internal.dom.CoreDocumentImpl.getElementById(CoreDocumentImpl.java:1949)
at org.icefaces.impl.context.DOMPartialViewContext.generateElementUpdateNotifications(DOMPartialViewContext.java:285)
at org.icefaces.impl.context.DOMPartialViewContext.processPartial(DOMPartialViewContext.java:254)
at javax.faces.component.UIViewRoot.encodeChildren(UIViewRoot.java:973)
at javax.faces.component.UIComponent.encodeAll(UIComponent.java:1779)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.renderView(FaceletViewHandlingStrategy.java:413)
at com.sun.faces.application.view.MultiViewHandler.renderView(MultiViewHandler.java:124)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.RenderResponsePhase.execute(RenderResponsePhase.java:120)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.Phase.doPhase(Phase.java:101)
at com.sun.faces.lifecycle.LifecycleImpl.render(LifecycleImpl.java:139)
at javax.faces.webapp.FacesServlet.service(FacesServlet.java:594)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:290)
at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProcessor.process(Http11AprProcessor.java:859)
at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11AprProtocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11AprProtocol.java:579)
at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.AprEndpoint$Worker.run(AprEndpoint.java:1555)
at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)

Modified DOMPartialViewContext.generateElementUpdateNotifications method to adapt to the type of edit operation it receives. If the operation's ID is not set then operation's element ID attribute is used for looking up the updated element. When neither of methods succeed a warning message is logged.

Component and framework code changes to remove most of the multiple write/writeText calls. Adding to the jira so I can revert these files from my workplan.

Fix commits need to be ported to the EE 3.3.0.GA_P01 release tag:

http://10.18.39.25:8888/svn/ossrepo/icefaces-ee/tags/icefaces-ee-3.3.0.GA_P01

Finished document cloning implementation by making sure that the imported node is added to the document and all ID-ed elements can be looked up.