Hi, This might be a stupid question, but are you sure there's an element whose ID is "content" ?
Yoav Shapira Millennium Research Informatics >-----Original Message----- >From: Jens Ansorg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Monday, July 26, 2004 8:48 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: [5.0.27] org.w3c.dom.Document.getElementById() not working - >worked with Resin-2.11 > >hi, > >I have a class that reads XHTML files and deals with them as dom document. > javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilderFactory factory = >DocumentBuilderFactory.newInstance(); > javax.xml.parsers.DocumentBuilder builder = >factory.newDocumentBuilder(); > org.w3c.dom.Document doc = builder.parse(new File(getUrl())); > > >one method tries to get a certain element in this dom > org.w3c.dom.Element contentElement = doc.getElementById("content"); > >unfortunately this code fails, contentElement is always null. > > >another method grabs all Anchors and deals with them > org.w3c.dom.NodeList links = doc.getElementsByTagName("a"); > for (int i = 0; i < links.getLength(); i++) > { > org.w3c.dom.Node link = links.item(i); > //... do something useful ... > } > >this code works! > > > >the class runs fine on a Resin Server but fails on Tomcat 5.0.27 > > > >any ideas how to get this working on tomcat? > > >thanks >Jens > > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]