--- In [email protected], "Martin Honnen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- 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. > Thank you very much for the solution. I just tried it and it works perfectly :)
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