Re: XML DOM issues in IE and Opera

I tried that as well, but it still failed in IE and Opera, and stopped
working in Firefox...?

Thanks,
Jim


On 11/5/05, Brad Fults <[email protected]> wrote:
> You should have responseXML.documentElement.getElementById()
>
> This will work in all modern browsers, including IE.
>
> On 11/5/05, Jim Auldridge <[email protected]> wrote:
> > getElementById() is a standard DOM method, so far as I know.  It is
> > used all the time in web pages to access a particular element with
> > specified ID from within a HTML document.  But HTML documents are only
> > one kind of document in which standard DOM methods are available.  Any
> > document, XML included, should have getElementById() available to it.
> >
> > Interestingly enough, though, getElementById() doesn't look at the
> > attribute named 'id', it looks at ANY attribute whose data type is
> > defined in the DTD as ID.  This is better explained here:
> > http://blog.bitflux.ch/wiki/GetElementById_Pitfalls
> >
> > Now, I say all that, but I don't guarantee I am right.  This is all my
> > understanding based on the research I have done.  And, as I said, it
> > all works fine in Firefox as long as I have a DTD that defines an
> > attribute as data type ID.
> >
> > Thanks for the reply,
> > Jim
> >
> > On 11/5/05, Lon Boonen <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > Since when is getElementById an XML DOM method? I never heard of it. But I may be wrong.
> > > At the very least its very un-xml-like to do getElementById. There are no id's in XML. Sure you can make them, but they have no special meaning, so why would there be a method to get elemnts by them?
> > >
> > > You should use selectSingleNode("//*[@id='" + myId + "']") for instance.
> > >
> > > groetjes Lon
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >
> > > From: [email protected] on behalf of Jim Auldridge
> > > Sent: Sat 05/11/2005 13:37
> > > To: [email protected]
> > > Subject: [wdf-dom] XML DOM issues in IE and Opera
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >  I am having a problem working with DOM methods in an XML document in
> > > IE and Opera.
> > >
> > > If you go here:
> > > http://www.jaaulde.com/test_bed/XML-DOM/
> > > and click the button at the top, my AJAX library get's and XML
> > > document, and you should see the 5 boxes fill in with appropriate
> > > data.
> > >
> > > That data is, in order, the headers returned when the AJAX request
> > > kicked off, the responseText, the data type of the responseXML (should
> > > be object) and the data type of responseXML.getElementById('code1')
> > > (should be object), and the actual value of the text within the
> > > element with ID 'code1'. (the element with the id 'code1' is one of
> > > the error elements in the XML)
> > >
> > > The only place this is working correctly is Firefox. So if you want to
> > > see the correct thing, use Fx.
> > >
> > > In IE everything is right until the last 2 boxes which are empty and I
> > > get an error saying that the reponseXML document doesn't support the
> > > method getElementById(). In Opera I get the same basic error, but the
> > > second to last box is correct--it says object. So the last box doesn't
> > > work right.
> > >
> > > So IE and Opera are not recognizing reponseXML as a XML document, or
> > > at least not fully supporting the DOM. You can see in the headers that
> > > the correct Content-Type (application/xml) is being sent. And I
> > > manually set at the server to 'text/xml' to see if that was the issue,
> > > but it is not.
> > >
> > > Does anyone know what gives?? I have debugged my little heart out.
> > >
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