Thank you for the reply, but I'm afraid that doesn't work either.
Using your code (after correcting the small typos with the quotes) I
tried this:
$("span[class*='mycategory']",x).length
It still returns zero.
On Feb 16, 11:15 am, Michael Lawson <mjlaw...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> You should wrap your string in '?
> so your code would be
> $('span[class*='mycategory'"],xml).length
>
> cheers
>
> Michael Lawson
> Content Tools Developer, Global Solutions, ibm.com
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>
> 'Examine my teachings critically, as a gold assayer would test gold. If you
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>
> From: ml1 <tsummer...@gmail.com>
>
>
> To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
>
>
> Date: 02/16/2009 11:08 AM
>
>
> Subject: [jQuery] "class" weirdness in loaded XML?!?
>
>
> 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?
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