Sasha Oros schrieb:
> Hi,
>
>
> I'm trying to use an ajax post request and not sure why is not working.
>
>
> Code in a button:
>
> $.post( "HTMLTestPage.htm",
> {
> employeeID: "007",
> requestType: "R"
> },
> function(xml){
> alert( xml );
> alert( "BankName = " + $("#BankName", xml).val() );
>
> }
> );
>
>
> The 'HTMLTestPage.html' is an html page (not xml). When I click on the
> button the first alert returns the whole page and I can see the source code,
> id=BankName and value for the field, but the second alert returns an empty
> string. I tried using the text() and html() function, but the outcome was
> the same.
>
> By the way, when I created a test button on the 'HTMLTestPage.html' with
> 'alert( $("#BankName" ).val()' it worked and I got the value displayed.
>
> Any idea?
>
>
> Any help is much appreciated, thanks.
In XML an id attribute is not automatically used as the element's id -
it has to be specified explicitly in a DTD for instance - thus you
cannot use the '#selector' which will use document.getElementById.
Note from the CSS Spec regarding this:
In XML 1.0 [XML10], the information about which attribute contains an
element's IDs is contained in a DTD. When parsing XML, UAs do not always
read the DTD, and thus may not know what the ID of an element is. If a
style sheet designer knows or suspects that this will be the case, he
should use normal attribute selectors instead: [name=p371] instead of #p371.
- http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/selector.html#id-selectors
There even exists a whole specification of how to handle this:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-id/
Long story short: $('[EMAIL PROTECTED]"whatever"]') should work.
-- Klaus
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