>How can I get IDREF linking if I read in an XML file (with proper dtd) as a DOM?
If the DOM was built with validation turned on, so the DOM knows which attributes are IDs, I believe we should be able to retrieve nodes by ID. Just retrieve the IDREF's string value and pass it into the XPath id() function (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-Node-Set-Functions). If the DOM was build with validation turned off, it doesn't know where and what the IDs are and we don't either. ______________________________________ Joe Kesselman / IBM Research
