- From: Lauren Wood <lauren@sqwest.bc.ca>
- Date: Fri, 07 Aug 1998 10:22:11 -0700
- To: www-dom@w3.org
At 07/08/98 10:35 AM , Peter Pierrou wrote: >I am developing a DOM api in C++ for our product the SGML/XML editor Documentor and I am >a bit confused about the Element::getElementsByTagName method. > >In the specification: > >"Parameters > tagname > The name of the tag to match on. If the string "*" is given, this method will > return all elements in the document" > >Does it really mean that "*" returns all elements in the Document, even the elements in the >parent chain of the element instance, or does it mean all elements descending the >element instance? All sub-elements of the Element in this case, not the document (that's what Document.getElementsByTagName is for). >Also: I presume that the method is recursive, please tell me if i am wrong. If by recursive you mean does it do the entire sub-tree, then yes. Lauren
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