fix(core): actionable error for empty sub-composition HTML in compile (#1364)

## Problem

The most common render failure in recent reports is:

```
Cannot destructure property 'firstElementChild' of 'documentElement' as it is null.
```

It appears when a `data-composition-src` file resolves to empty or unparsable HTML, and started showing up after the render pipeline change in 0.6.73.

## Root cause

When a sub-composition file is empty or unparsable, linkedom's `parseHTML` returns a document with a null `documentElement`, and the shared inliner (`packages/core/src/compiler/inlineSubCompositions.ts`) dereferences `.body`/`.head` on it, crashing inside linkedom internals with the cryptic destructure error instead of telling the user what's wrong.

## Fix

Guard the resolved sub-composition HTML and the extracted content HTML in the shared inliner: empty or unparsable input now fails with an actionable error naming the offending file.

## Testing

- New tests in core and producer reproducing the empty sub-composition case (previously crashed with the destructure error, now throws the actionable message).
- `bun run build` green, all tests pass in the changed test files.
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Miguel Ángel
2026-06-11 23:40:11 -04:00
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@@ -38,6 +38,20 @@ function makeHostDocument(compId: string) {
}
describe("inlineSubCompositions #ID selector scoping divergence", () => {
it("throws an actionable error when a resolved sub-composition file is empty", () => {
const document = makeHostDocument("intro");
const host = document.querySelector('[data-composition-src="intro.html"]')!;
expect(() =>
inlineSubCompositions(document, [host], {
resolveHtml: () => "",
parseHtml: (html) => parseHTML(html).document,
}),
).toThrow(
"Composition HTML is empty or could not be parsed: intro.html. Check that the file referenced by data-composition-src contains valid HTML.",
);
});
it("producer path (no flattenInnerRoot): strips inner root, losing #id attribute", () => {
const document = makeHostDocument("intro");
const host = document.querySelector('[data-composition-src="intro.html"]')!;