Re: [XMLHttpRequest] Comment on the example in Section 1

The difference is the xmlns declaration. The example requires an XHTML  
resource to work.

In any case, IMHO, this example is a bit more complex than necessary.

Subbu

On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
> Subbu Allamaraju wrote:
>> Yes, indeed. It works with the specific example you tried below  
>> (using XHTML), but not for generic XML, which is what the draft is  
>> using.
>
> My test works the same way if I rename the file to "test.xml".
>
> I'm not sure what you mean by "generic XML", especially because the  
> example in the draft doesn't have the document it's using but just  
> the filename.  If you mean that if you put some random XML that  
> doesn't have any attributes of type ID in the file, then  
> getElementById won't return anything... then that seems like a  
> tautology.  None of the nodes have IDs in that case.
>
> -Boris