Re: DOM 1 or DOM 2 analogs to MSXML3 extensions

William Edney <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.devel.xml
Organization Another Netscape Collabra Server User
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Yep, and DOM Level 3 even goes further than Microsoft's stuff in 
allowing you to have 'scalar' return values from an XPath expression 
(Strings, Booleans or Numbers).

Had to hack a nasty bit of XSLT to get the same functionality in IE...

Cheers,

- Bill

Neil Deakin wrote:
> 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
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