Hi Jake,
Jacob Kjome <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote on 01/25/2007 01:19:46 AM:
> I'm wondering whether or not I should expect that if I import/adopt a
> node from a source DOM, that attributes of type ID on the
> imported/adopted nodes should be found by getElementById() in the
> destination DOM. The behavior I'm seeing is that getElementById()
> fails to find the elemements (null is returned).
>
> Can anyone provide some insight on what I should expect? If the type
> of the attributes are not carried over, what is one to do? For
> non-HTML DOM's, getElementById() can apply to an attribute of any
> name, as long as it was marked as of type ID, so it's not like I
> recurse the DOM for "id" attributes, as I might in the HTML DOM.
There was a discussion [1] on this topic a couple years ago. I was fairly
convinced by Joe Kesselman's thoughts [2] at the time though now I'm not
really sure.
> Actually, when I use the HTML DOM, I seem to have the same problem
> and I wouldn't expect it there because if
> HTMLDocument.getElementById() can't find an element with an attribute
> registered as of type ID with the specified value, it falls back to
> recursing the DOM looking for "id" attributes with the specified
> value. Why is it not finding the elements?
Sounds like a bug.
> For instance (pretend
> these are HTML documents, and note that this is from a conversation
> on the XMLC list [1])...
>
> page 1:
> -----
> <page1>
> <node id="wherePage2ContentGoes"></node>
> </page1>
> -----
>
> page 2:
> -----
> <page2>
> <node id="content">
> Stuff to be transferred to page1.
> <node id="needToMatch">this node</node>
> </node>
> </page2>
> -----
>
> // import content from page 2
> Node destNode = page1.getElementById("wherePage2ContentGoes");
> Node srcNode = page2.getElementById("content");
> destNode.appendChild(page1.importNode(srcNode, true));
>
> ...
>
> // then later:
> Node match = page1.getElementById("needToMatch"); // fails (match ==
null)
>
>
> Thoughts?
>
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[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109836916900003&r=1&w=2
[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-dev&m=109838807214629&w=2
Michael Glavassevich
XML Parser Development
IBM Toronto Lab
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