--- In [email protected], "Catalin Hritcu"
> I have almost the same problem, and I have tried all the tricks in
> this thread and I can still with no success. I also would like to use
> getElementById on some XML document I get via XMLHttpRequest ... but
> well, the XML document is not SVG, nor is there any way I can make it
> be. Does anybody have any idea on how I can use getElementById on such
> a document?
For XML getElementById only works for those attributes that the DTD
defines as being of type ID (or for those MIME types like
application/xhtml+xml for XHTML 1 or image/svg+xml for SVG where the
browser knows which attributes are ID attributes). Additionally
Mozilla uses expat for XML parsing and that reads only the internal
DTD so there you would need to define the attributes of type ID.
Example XML document:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE gods [
<!ATTLIST god
name ID #REQUIRED>
]>
<gods>
<god name="Kibo" power="42" />
</gods>
Example script using XMLHttpRequest to read that:
var httpRequest = new XMLHttpRequest();
httpRequest.open('GET', 'test2006020302.xml', true);
httpRequest.onreadystatechange = function () {
if (httpRequest.readyState == 4) {
var xmlDocument = httpRequest.responseXML;
var element = xmlDocument.getElementById('Kibo');
if (element != null) {
alert(element + '; ' + element.getAttribute('power'));
}
}
};
httpRequest.send(null);
The element is found here with Mozilla and with Opera (9).
Opera 8 does not find the element however.
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