why not do this
$('span.mycategory').length
(I've not worked with jquery and xml so I don't know anything about it)
ml1 wrote:
I have something very strange going on trying to create a wrapped set
of elements from an xml file loaded via jquery's xmlhttprequest. The
xml has a number of entries with class attributes that have multiple
values, ie <span class="mycategory mychoice" ...>...</span>
When I use this selector:
$('span[class*=mycategory"],xml).length
jquery returns zero. Weirdly if I do exactly the same thing but use a
different attribute name from "class" in the xml and the query, it
works perfectly.
If I use this method I get the expected result:
$('span').attr('class')
It returns "mycategory mychoice"
Is there something special about the "class" attribute in xml that is
causing this?
