Re: DOM 1 or DOM 2 analogs to MSXML3 extensions

Paul wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am thinking about porting to Mozilla (Firefox?) a large Windows IE-based
> DHTML/XML/XSL application.
> 
> Surmounting the activeXObject stuff was easy. But I am wondering about a
> 'best practices' way of replacing certain MS extensions to the W3C spec.
> Specifically,
> MS provided some very useful XML DOM functions like selectSingleNode and
> selectNodes. Each takes a valid XPATH expression and returns one (or more)
> matching node(s).
> 
> Does any one know a good Mozilla-related analog for these (and others)?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> -pmb
> 
> 
> 

For this, you would use the DOM3 XPath api:

http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath/

Specifically, document.evaluate(...)

/ Neil