From 233296a56fddbf1c093b6aaf5b59871afedb3b91 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Peter Bacon Darwin <pete@bacondarwin.com>
Date: Tue, 8 Sep 2015 13:52:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] fix(angular.copy): support copying XML nodes

Closes #5429
---
 src/Angular.js      | 2 ++
 test/AngularSpec.js | 7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/src/Angular.js b/src/Angular.js
index 15d313d7b104..31070590e1b7 100644
--- a/src/Angular.js
+++ b/src/Angular.js
@@ -825,6 +825,8 @@ function copy(source, destination, stackSource, stackDest) {
       } else if (isRegExp(source)) {
         destination = new RegExp(source.source, source.toString().match(/[^\/]*$/)[0]);
         destination.lastIndex = source.lastIndex;
+      } else if (source.cloneNode) {
+          destination = source.cloneNode();
       } else {
         var emptyObject = Object.create(getPrototypeOf(source));
         return copy(source, emptyObject, stackSource, stackDest);
diff --git a/test/AngularSpec.js b/test/AngularSpec.js
index fd7f6e43bce3..794bc0af49f2 100644
--- a/test/AngularSpec.js
+++ b/test/AngularSpec.js
@@ -386,6 +386,13 @@ describe('angular', function() {
       expect(aCopy).toBe(aCopy.self);
     });
 
+    it("should support XML nodes", function() {
+      var anElement = document.createElement("foo");
+      var theCopy = anElement.cloneNode();
+      expect(copy(anElement.outerHTML)).toEqual(theCopy.outerHTML);
+      expect(copy(anElement)).not.toBe(anElement);
+    });
+
     it('should handle objects with multiple references', function() {
       var b = {};
       var a = [b, -1, b];