Re: More XPath
"Leon Bezuidenhout" <[email protected]> Fri, 22 Dec 2006 08:17:43 +0200
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Hi, Sorry, I was not very clear on what I was doing. This data is not in an XML island, it is retrieved with an HTTPRequest. I am using MOZ 2.0 Thanks "Jonas Sicking" <[email protected]> wrote in message news:[email protected]... > Like Martin pointed out, your problem is most likely not in the XPath, but > in your handling of markups. Don't put XML inside HTML and expect it to > work. The HTML parser will apply all 10 years of web compatibility quirks > handling on the DOM and so lots of things might happen to it that you > don't expect. > > Have you looked at the DOM using the DOM-Inspector? Does it look like what > you think it does? > > If you want to pass XML along with your HTML then put it inside a comment > or inside a javascript variable and then parse it using DOMParser. Don't > put it right inside the markup since that's both more wasteful > processing-wise (first parsed as HTML and then serialized back to a > string), and exposes it to all the quirks of HTML parsing. > > / Jonas