Re: [xmlc] getElementsByTagName in XHTML ?

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Quoting Petr Stehlik <[email protected]>:

> Hi,
>
> node.getTagName() returns "td" because that node is of type
> HTMLTableCellElement...
>

You are using the HTML DOM or XHTML?  From above, it looks like the HTML DO=
M as
the XHTML DOM would be XHTMLTableCellElement, no?  Typo?

> The same node.getElementsByTagName("td") returns an empty NodeList while
> it should contain at least itself, IMHO. Therefore I'd say that the
> getElementsByTagName method doesn't work correctly (for XHTML only?).
>

Well, apparently for HTML DOM since it seems that is what you are using.  I=
n any
case, here's what the API says...

    /**
     * Returns a <code>NodeList</code> of all descendant <code>Elements</co=
de>
     * with a given tag name, in the order in which they are encountered in
     * a preorder traversal of this <code>Element</code> tree.
     * @param name The name of the tag to match on. The special value "*"
     *   matches all tags.
     * @return A list of matching <code>Element</code> nodes.
     */
    public NodeList getElementsByTagName(String name);

According to this, only descendents would be returned.  I'd think it aweful=
ly
odd behavior that it would return itself.  Was this just your opinion or ba=
sed
on some other part of the spec that I am unaware of?

> Well, even if the getElementsByTagName was supposed to start from
> children of the supplied node instead from the node itself then it still
> doesn't work as I tested that case as well.
>

What's the test case?  If you were to do node.getElementsByTagName("td") an=
d the
current node is a "td", I wouldn't expect to have any results returned unle=
ss
you were using nested tables.  If you are using the HTML DOM, that should be
node.getElementsByTagName("TD") anyway, since the HTML DOM stores its nodes=
 in
upper case.

> It's easy to write an implementation of getElementsByTagName that works
> correctly and I am just doing that but I still wonder why the supplied
> DOM method doesn't do what I'd expect.
>

I wonder if your expectation is valid?  I also wonder if your test is valid=
.=20
Can you provide the testcase you mention above so that we can verify whether
there really is something wrong here?

Jake

> Enhydra XMLC version 2.2, Enhydra 5.1.15.
>
> Thanks.
>
> Petr
>
>
>
>





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