ID attribute of newly appended node not of type ID

[Daniel Siino]

Hi,

 

I'm parsing an SVG file and able to retrieve existing group (g) node using getElementById. However, I am not able to retrieve nodes that have been added to the DOM using appendChild. I tried both getElementById and the XPathAPI. The only way to see the new nodes is to loop thru the NodeList. The DTD does declare id attribute as type ID for all element. The new nodes are created in the SVG namespace. When stepping thru the debugger, I see that the type of the attribute is null as opposed to ID.

 

I also tried using setIdAttribute from the Attr API.

Attr attr = doc.createAttribute("id");
attr.setValue("123");
((AttrImpl)attr).setIdAttribute(true);

 

 

Do I have to re-parse the document in order to retrieve new nodes with getElementById?

 

Regards

 

Daniel