I filed a bug and fixed the issue:
http://dev.jquery.com/ticket/4167
--John
On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:40 AM, ml1 <tsummer...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Tragically none of those quoting variations work. (I've pretty much
> exhausted every quote variation in my desperate search to try to
> figure out what's going on.)
>
> Any other ideas? Could this possibly be a jquery bug?
>
> On Feb 16, 11:35 am, Michael Lawson <mjlaw...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
>> I didn't notice the quotation discrepancy, good catch! Also, I know
>> they're not required, but it's good practice IMHO.
>> cheers
>>
>> Michael Lawson
>> Content Tools Developer, Global Solutions, ibm.com
>> Phone: 1-919-517-1568 Tieline: 255-1568
>> E-mail: mjlaw...@us.ibm.com
>>
>> 'Examine my teachings critically, as a gold assayer would test gold. If you
>> find they make sense, conform to your experience, and don't harm yourself
>> or others, only then should you accept them.'
>>
>> From: Karl Swedberg <k...@englishrules.com>
>>
>> To: jquery-en@googlegroups.com
>>
>> Date: 02/16/2009 11:31 AM
>>
>> Subject: [jQuery] Re: "class" weirdness in loaded XML?!?
>>
>> The string does not need to be wrapped in single quotation marks. Also, why
>> does the selector begin with a single quotation mark and end with a double?
>> Are these just typos in the emails?
>>
>> Try this:
>>
>> $('span[class*=mycategory]',xml).length
>>
>> Just one set of single quotation marks, and the closing mark is to the
>> right of the closing bracket.
>>
>> --Karl
>>
>> ____________
>> Karl Swedbergwww.englishrules.comwww.learningjquery.com
>>
>> On Feb 16, 2009, at 11:15 AM, Michael Lawson 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
>> Phone: 1-919-517-1568 Tieline: 255-1568
>> E-mail: mjlaw...@us.ibm.com
>>
>> 'Examine my teachings critically, as a gold assayer would test gold.
>> If you find they make sense, conform to your experience, and don't
>> harm yourself or others, only then should you accept them.'
>>
>> <graycol.gif>ml1 ---02/16/2009 11:08:46 AM---I have something very
>> strange going on trying to create a wrapped set
>>
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>> From: ml1 <?tsummer...@gmail.com>
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>> To: "jQuery (English)" <jquery-en@googlegroups.com>
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>> Date: 02/16/2009 11:08 AM
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>> 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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