- From: James Graham <jg307@cam.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 09 Aug 2004 21:19:28 +0100
chriswa at comcast.net wrote: > Mind you I'm not saying that you cannot do that with an XML document. You can but can you do this in an HTML DOM document? Mozilla wll allow XPATH evaluations against a HTML document (the expression mustn't use namespaces and passing null as the namespace resolver works). I've no idea if this is supposed to work, or if it works in other implementations, but it is very useful. > much more complicated than merely scanning the elements and using indexOf(). I don't see why this is an unacceptable solution; it's presumably only a few lines of code and I wouldn't expect it to be too slow for most documents. -- "If anybody ever tells you that you?re using the language incorrectly, just yell 'prescriptive grammarian!' at the top of your voice and all the linguists in the building will run over and surround the guy... and then they?ll rough him up"
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