Hi Klaus and Erik

thanks for your answers. Am I understand you right: Because Firefox 
doesn't support SMIL, the animate element is a foreign element for him?

Olaf

Erik Dahlström wrote:
> The elements are part of the DOM tree, since it's XML, but the 'id' attribute 
> is not of type ID for arbitrary XML. You could use 'xml:id' in such cases, 
> but I'm not sure FF supports that. The other option is to push for FF to 
> recognize the elements as SVG elements.
> 
> Cheers
> /Erik
> 
> On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 16:44:49 +0100, Klaus Förster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
>> Olaf, could it be that this is due to missing animation support in FF3.
>> It seems that unknown elements are discarded and thus not part of the
>> DOM tree ...
>>
>> Klaus
>>
>> Olaf Schnabel wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi developers
>>>
>>> I currently try to detect an animation element in a SVG file with
>>> document.getElementById(). Unfortunately, Firefox 3.0.3 returns always
>>> "null". In Opera 9.62 and IE7+ASV3.03 this example works well (I am
>>> working on Windows XP SP3). Has somebody an idea how this can be? I
>>> thought that getElementById() is implemented in all major browsers???
>>>
>>> Here is the link to the example:
>>> http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel/getelementbyid_firefoxbug.svg
>>> <http://www.ika.ethz.ch/schnabel/getelementbyid_firefoxbug.svg>
>>>
>>> Thanks for your help.
>>> Regards
>>> Olaf
>>>
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> 
> 
> 

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