fix(helpers): correct sibling lookup in compareDocumentPosition for leaf nodes

[spokodev]

compareDocumentPosition builds each node's ancestor chain with hasChildren(node) ? node : node.parent, so a node that can't have children (a text, comment or processing-instruction node) is represented by its parent, not itself. When such a leaf node is compared against an element that is its sibling, the two chains differ in length by one, and the sibling lookup aParents[index] / bParents[index] reads past the end of the shorter chain and returns undefined. siblings.indexOf(undefined) is -1, so the order check silently produces the opposite result.

For <div><p></p><!--c--><a></a></div>, compareDocumentPosition(p, comment) returned FOLLOWING instead of PRECEDING, and uniqueSort (built on this) sorts such nodes out of document order. When a chain is exhausted, the node itself is the sibling to compare; this uses it. Verified against jsdom's document ordering.

Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes

  • Corrected document position comparisons involving HTML comment nodes and sibling elements.
  • Improved document-order sorting when HTML comments are present.
  • Ensured accurate results when comparing comments with nearby paragraph and anchor elements.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for sibling ordering and document-order sorting involving HTML comments.

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compareDocumentPosition now handles exhausted parent paths by using the original node. Tests cover position flags and document-order sorting for paragraph, comment, and anchor siblings.

Changes

Comment sibling position comparison

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Handle comment sibling positions src/helpers.ts, src/helpers.spec.ts	compareDocumentPosition uses the original node when a parent path ends. Tests verify sibling position flags and comment ordering in uniqueSort.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

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This corrects document ordering for comment and other leaf-node siblings, including uniqueSort output. The targeted comparison and sorting coverage supports merge readiness.

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In `@src/helpers.spec.ts`:
- Around line 74-83: Add a regression assertion in the sibling-comment test that
passes [a, comment, p] to uniqueSort and verifies the result is ordered as [p,
comment, a], while retaining the existing compareDocumentPosition assertions.

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[spokodev]

Added the end-to-end assertion: uniqueSort([a, comment, p]) now has to come back as [p, comment, a], so the sort behaviour is covered as well as the position flags. It fails on the previous commit alongside the flag test. 81 passing.

Two commits in the middle are a formatting mistake and its revert — npx prettier pulled 3.9.6, which is not pinned in this repo, and reflowed the whole spec file. The net diff is back to the two-line fix plus the two tests.

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Greptile Summary

The PR corrects document-position comparisons when an ancestor chain is exhausted for a leaf node.

• Falls back to the original node during sibling-order lookup.
• Adds comparison and sorting coverage for comment nodes between element siblings.

Confidence Score: 5/5

The PR appears safe to merge, with no actionable correctness or security issues identified.

The fallback selects the original leaf when its ancestor chain is exhausted, while existing containment and disconnected-node branches continue to handle their respective cases.

Important Files Changed

Filename	Overview
src/helpers.ts	Correctly restores the omitted leaf node for sibling lookup without changing disconnected-node handling.
src/helpers.spec.ts	Adds focused bidirectional ordering and unique-sort coverage for comment siblings.

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🟢 Approval recommended

The change is small, directly addresses the described bug, and is backed by focused regression tests that exercise the previously incorrect behavior.

Pull request overview

Fixes an ordering bug in compareDocumentPosition when comparing “leaf” nodes (eg comments/text) against sibling elements by ensuring the sibling comparison uses the original node once the ancestor chain is exhausted, restoring correct document-order behavior (and uniqueSort ordering) in these cases.

Changes:

• Adjust sibling selection in compareDocumentPosition to fall back to nodeA/nodeB when the ancestor chain ends.
• Add tests covering comment-vs-element sibling ordering and uniqueSort document-order sorting with comment siblings.

File summaries

File	Description
src/helpers.ts	Fixes sibling lookup logic to avoid out-of-bounds ancestor indexing for leaf nodes.
src/helpers.spec.ts	Adds regression tests for comment sibling ordering and uniqueSort with comment nodes.

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