Cannot modify a template's contents while it is stamping

[sorvell]

If dom is inserted into a template's content while it is stamping out, e.g. via createInstance, problems can occur. For example, sub-templates do not correctly maintain their 'ref' property. Given:

<template id="T">
    <x-a>
        <template id="Ta">
            <div id="foo"></div>

• createInstance is called on #T
• when it's created, x-a inserts a childNode inside itself.

The resulting stamped #Ta will lose its ref property and therefore cannot find it's template (#foo is lost).

[rafaelw]

I don't understand.

[sorvell]

Hmm, I thought it was something like the following but this appears to totally work now so closing this.

http://jsbin.com/ciyah/1/edit