Asiri Rathnayake wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Asiri Rathnayake wrote: >>> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 7:42 PM, Sergiu Dumitriu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >>>> Asiri Rathnayake wrote: >>>>>> Isn't there a hasAttribute(attributeName) method? Just asking because >>>>>> this method exists in the DOM Level 2 Core specification. See >>>>>> http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-2-Core/core.html#ID-ElHasAttr >>>>>> >>>>> It's not available in org.w3c.dom.Node but org.w3c.dom.Element (which >>>>> extends Node) contains that method. I don't see a way to use Element >>>> instead >>>>> of Node because Element doesn't seem to have a getChildElements() >> method. >>>> If Element extends Node, then it inherits all its methods, including >>>> getChildElements. >>> >>> getChildElements() is not available in either Node or Element. >>> >>> May be I explained wrong. What I meant to say is, I can iterate over >> Nodes >>> in the dom tree, not Elements. >>> >> But you can always use instanceof and cast... >> > > I kind of thought of that. I mean in xhtml all tags should be Elements right > ? But wasn't sure of this myself. And if the instanceof check fails, what > should be the logic to handle that case ? Won't this complicate the code > than it is now ? >
If the object is not instanceof Element, then you don't do anything. Only elements can have attributes. The code won't be complicated. -- Sergiu Dumitriu http://purl.org/net/sergiu/ _______________________________________________ devs mailing list devs@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
