Makes good sense. I was just curious anyway. It's easy to get around.
Turns out I don't even have to deal with unused tags, and can simply call
getChildNodes(). Super, thanks again.
-Dave
----- Original Message -----
From: "Elena Litani" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 9:44 AM
Subject: Re: wildcards
> Hi Dave,
>
> "Dave Yuill [thalez]" wrote:
> > I used to use '*' wildcards to get all of the wanted children at once
and in
> > order, and now it doesn't seem to work anymore.
> >
> > doc.getElementsByTagName("data*");
> >
> > ..used to return all 'data' and 'dataMORE' elements. Now it returns
none...
>
> If you got this behavior in the beta -- it was incorrect.
> According to DOM L2 the value of the parameter tagname is:
> [[
> The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*" matches all tags.
> ]]
>
> I could see that the functionality you're looking for could be useful,
> but this is not how the function is supposed to work.
>
>
> Thank you!
> --
> Elena Litani / IBM Toronto
>
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