Thanks for the help everyone. That's really a shame that you can't use the DOM functions available on HTML with XML, it would really make life easier in a lot of cases.
On Jun 15, 3:09 pm, skyeflye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Gordon, > > Your question (and Scott's earlier reply) may nullify this > recommendation for your particular circumstances, but if it's any help > to you or others, I found a good, basic tutorial on parsing XML with > jQuery here: > > http://blog.reindel.com/2007/02/02/use-jquery-expressions-and-ajax-to... > > The approach outlined loads the XML file using jQuery AJAX functions, > so it *may* also help with your DTD situation (??). > > -THEO- > > On Jun 15, 9:47 am, Scott Sauyet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Gordon wrote: > > > Is there a way I can get the #selector style syntax to work on XML > > > files? > > > I don't think so. From the CSS specs [1]: > > > Note. In XML 1.0 [XML10], the information about which attribute > > contains an element's IDs is contained in a DTD. When parsing XML, > > UAs do not always read the DTD, and thus may not know what the ID of > > an element is. If a style sheet designer knows or suspects that this > > will be the case, he should use normal attribute selectors instead: > > [name=p371] instead of #p371. However, the cascading order of normal > > attribute selectors is different from ID selectors. It may be > > necessary to add an "!important" priority to the declarations: > > [name=p371] {color: red ! important}. Of course, elements in XML 1.0 > > documents without a DTD do not have IDs at all. > > > I don't know for sure, but I suspect that even if you supplied a DTD > > reference in your XML document, most browsers wouldn't find it. Perhaps > > if your DTD was internal...? Sorry. :-( > > > -- Scott > > > [1]http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#id-selectors
