Re: Are all <a> and <area> nodes to be considered WebLinks

<a href=""> is a link.
<a name=""> is not a link - it is an anchor.
That is as designed. What we need is a getAnchors() method, not a  
change to an existing method.

On Apr 6, 2008, at 3:30 AM, Wolfgang Fahl wrote:

> Dear httpunit developers,
>
> bug report [ 1156972 ] isWebLink doesn't recognize all anchor tags
> by fregienj contains:
>
> "I would suggest changing ParsedHTML.isWebLink(Node)
> from checking if the "href" attribute exists to
> checking if the node name is equal-to-ignore-case "A".
>
> return (node.getNodeName().equalsIgnoreCase("A"));
>
> Currently isWebLink does not pick up on links that only
> use the onclick to go to a page. There's also no
> currently way to find a <a name=> tag."
> I have worked on this with
> http://httpunit.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/httpunit?view=rev&revision=912
> and not activated the change since it would break other test cases.
>
> Currently the test case for this bugreport warns:
> *** Test testFindNonHrefLinks() disabled: pending decision for bug  
> report [ 1156972 ] -> does an <a> node to have href to be considered  
> a link?
>
> What is your opinion to the answer for this Question:
> Does an <a> or <area> node to have href to be considered a link?
>
> How should httpunit behave with respect to this question. So what  
> should getLinks return for a response?
>
> This may well lead to a compatibility issue and we might have to add  
> a new version of getLinks or add an option that allows to switch to  
> the old behaviour.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Yours
>   Wolfgang
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