Right now dom4j doesn't notice the attribute types when parsing XML with a DTD so cannot find the ID attributes properly.
James ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Oehser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Thomas Nichols" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, July 15, 2002 6:33 PM Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] elementByID problems > > Note, they do have stuff in the DTD like: > > <!ENTITY % iid " Id ID #IMPLIED"> > and > <!ENTITY % rid " Id ID #REQUIRED"> > > Maybe w3c-dom works with this and dom4j doesn't? > > -Tom > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Tom Oehser wrote: > > > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 13:26:44 -0400 (EDT) > > From: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: Thomas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] elementByID problems > > > > > > They use "Id". -Tom > > > > On Mon, 15 Jul 2002, Thomas Nichols wrote: > > > > > Date: Mon, 15 Jul 2002 17:11:34 +0100 > > > From: Thomas Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > To: Tom Oehser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Subject: Re: [dom4j-user] elementByID problems > > > > > > Are you using an "ID" attribute, or "id"? From memory, at one stage dom4j > > > did not process the latter. > > > - Thomas. > > > > > > At 10:59 15/07/2002 -0400, Tom Oehser wrote: > > > > > > >Hi, > > > > > > > >I am converting existing w3c-dom stuff to dom4j. > > > > > > > >In the w3c stuff, there is code using "getElementById()". > > > > > > > >When I parse into dom4j, both "elementByID()" and the > > > >"getElementById()" of DOMs from DOMWriter give null. > > > > > > > >The documentation says something about the tree not > > > >being capable of knowing what attribute to use- but > > > >I can't figure out what is necessary to make it work, > > > >or, best, make the DOM from DOMWriter work, the way > > > >the existing DOM code works... > > > > > > > > > > > >-Tom > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >------------------------------------------------------- > > > >This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > > >Welcome to geek heaven. > > > >http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > > >_______________________________________________ > > > >dom4j-user mailing list > > > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > > Welcome to geek heaven. > > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > > _______________________________________________ > > dom4j-user mailing list > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > Welcome to geek heaven. > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > dom4j-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.comm ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ dom4j-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/dom4j-user
