Hi, no responses to this, so thought I'd reply to put it in front of people again. Perhaps an item for the jquery dev list? thanks, -Morgan
On Jun 10, 4:57 pm, morgancodes <hellomorganpack...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm getting inconsistant results across browsers with the following > test: > > ============ test.html =========== > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" > "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd";> > > <html lang="en"> > <head> > <script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ > ajax/libs/jquery/1.3/jquery.min.js"></script> > </head> > <body> > <script> > > var xml; > > $.ajax({ > type: "GET", > url: "data.xml", > success: function(data){ > var node = $("CI:first", data); > var query1 = $("T TX", node).length; > var query2 = $("T", node).find("TX").length; > > var msg = '$("T TX", node).length: ' + query1; > msg += "\n"; > msg += '$("T", node).find("TX").length: ' + query2; > alert(msg); > } > > }); > > </script> > </body> > </html> > > ============ data.xml =========== > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-2"?> > <CNs> > <CI> > <T> > <TX></TX> > </T> > </CI> > <CI> > <T> > <TX></TX> > </T> > </CI> > <CI> > <T> > <TX></TX> > </T> > </CI> > </CNs> > > What should happen is this: > > - Load xml via ajax call > - select an xml node: $("CI:first", data); > - select a node within that node: $("T TX", node) > - second selection should only come up with one "TX" tag > > However, in IE6 and IE8 (haven't tried IE7), the second selection > seems to ignor the "node" context, and search the entire xml document. > The test runs as expected in FireFox and Safari. Doing it this way > works in IE $("T", node).find("TX"). Any explanations of why $("T TX", > node) doesn't work in IE? > > thanks, > > -Morgan
