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Dr. Bhatia Praveen wrote:
Hi,
Intuitively I also felt strange that <a name="xxx"> and < input id="xxx">
should get entangled this way. In the <input > element I did not give any
name attribute but when in the JavaScript I did:
alert(document.getElementById("xxx").name) it gave "xxx" !
Can you please post a snippet of the HTML and javascript that is
displaying this behaviour.
When I comment out the <a name=""> generation in the document-to-html.xsl
alert gives "undefined" and <input id="xxx" > responds correctly to any
changes made to its value by JavaScript.
Likewise, please provide the same snippets that display this behaviour.
I use internet explorer Version 6.0 (Japanese version). Could it be due the
browser?
I doubt it. Lets try some experimentation.
Ross
Praveen
-----Original Message-----
From: Ross Gardler [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 6:07 AM
To: user@forrest.apache.org
Subject: Re: <a name="xxx"> being added for @id
Dr. Bhatia Praveen wrote:
Hello,
I need your expert advice on the following.
I use javaScript code via <script>....</script> inside xml file which
would be rendered into html later.
I use a <input id="xxx"> element too.
I noticed that document-to-html.xsl recognizes @id and adds <a
name="xxx"/> before the input element, because of which the
document.getElementById("xxx") ends up getting the wrong element.
eh?
getElementById does what it says. It gets the element with a given id.
It shouldn't (can't?) return the anchor element with the name attribute.
Are you sure you diagnosed tho real problem?
To overcome the problem I commented out the <a name="xxx"> generation in
document-to-html.xsl, which made the code work !
What are :
1) The consequences of this change to what forrest normally expects or
does?
The most immediate side effect will be that table of contents and other
cross referencing will not work.
2) What could be a better workaround than the hack that I did?
Lets see if this really in the problem.
Ross
