- From: Subbu Allamaraju <subbu.allamaraju@gmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 20:03:37 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@MIT.EDU>
- Cc: public-webapi@w3.org
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
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