XOM API for Processing XML with Java

[Tatu Saloranta <cowtowncoder AT yahoo.com>]

--- Elliotte Harold <elharo AT metalab.unc.edu> wrote:

> Jan Venema wrote:
> > No getElementById?
> > 
> > I thougth ID was special in XML.
...
> 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.

Not that I have immediate need for this myself, but I
am curious as to what would be the complex part with
this: is it just that XOM doesn't currently build the
hash from id (DTD/schema/RNG defined type ID for an
attribute, or Xml:id implied type), and thus this
might result in a linear search?
Detecting id attributes should be easy enough,
provided that the low-level parser provides type info.

-+ Tatu +-



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