On Tue, Dec 2, 2008 at 10:39 AM, Aaron Leventhal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe there is a deeper problem if copy & paste doesn't work right because > of IDs? > > Or maybe there should be a node.getDescendantById() method?
maybe, but not with that name. Results 1 - 10 of about 4,480,000 for Descendent [definition]. (0.22 seconds) Results 1 - 10 of about 8,370,000 for Descendant [definition]. (0.41 seconds) the wikipedia links are confusing enough http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Descendant links to: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendent which has an also link to http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/descendant which has a 'US' audio file So the web says that '-dant' is favored 2:1 over '-dent', which is a fairly bad margin considering the spelling errors we've seen in html/http. I'd sooner see Node.getElementById and risk the confusion of it returning fewer nodes than Document.getElementById.
