From 755beb2b66ce9f9f9a218f2355bbaf96d94fbc15 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Shyam Seshadri
Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2013 10:21:17 +0530
Subject: fix(compiler): Allow startingTag method to handle text / comment
 nodes

---
 src/Angular.js | 15 ++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

(limited to 'src/Angular.js')

diff --git a/src/Angular.js b/src/Angular.js
index 27ef157d..5195489e 100644
--- a/src/Angular.js
+++ b/src/Angular.js
@@ -777,9 +777,18 @@ function startingTag(element) {
     // are not allowed to have children. So we just ignore it.
     element.html('');
   } catch(e) {}
-  return jqLite('<div>').append(element).html().
-      match(/^(<[^>]+>)/)[1].
-      replace(/^<([\w\-]+)/, function(match, nodeName) { return '<' + lowercase(nodeName); });
+  // As Per DOM Standards
+  var TEXT_NODE = 3;
+  var elemHtml = jqLite('<div>').append(element).html();
+  try {
+    return element[0].nodeType === TEXT_NODE ? lowercase(elemHtml) :
+        elemHtml.
+          match(/^(<[^>]+>)/)[1].
+          replace(/^<([\w\-]+)/, function(match, nodeName) { return '<' + lowercase(nodeName); });
+  } catch(e) {
+    return lowercase(elemHtml);
+  }
+
 }
 
 
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