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Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..)

From: Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu>
To: Jan Venema <jan.venema AT gmail.com>
Cc: xom-interest <xom-interest AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Subject: Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..)
Date: Sat, 07 Oct 2006 08:46:50 -0400

Jan Venema wrote:

No getElementById?

I thougth ID was special in XML.
XOM tries to be correct, so why not tread ID as a first-class citizen.
And since XOM API is targetted at non-experts (from the tutorial section at
xom.nu) I think it is an omission not to include it.

IDs are very tricky in XML. Not everything that looks like an ID is. I might be one day convinced to add this, but right now I think it's best just to use XPath.

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[XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), Jan Venema, 10/07/2006
- Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), Elliotte Harold, 10/07/2006
  - Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), Tatu Saloranta, 10/07/2006
    - Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), Elliotte Harold, 10/07/2006
      - Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), John Cowan, 10/08/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), Elliotte Harold, 10/08/2006
        
        [XOM-interest] XSLTransform error, peter murray-rust, 10/08/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] XSLTransform error, Elliotte Harold, 10/08/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), Tatu Saloranta, 10/09/2006
        
        Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), John Cowan, 10/09/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), Tatu Saloranta, 10/09/2006
        Re: [XOM-interest] getElementById (not again.... I know, but..), John Cowan, 10/09/2006