Re: output html as lower case?

Just a little update.  I asked on the Jaxen-interest list about
treating the HTML DOM in a case-insensitive manner.  The one
response I got made it sound like it isn't supported currently, but there
is at least one (ugly) workaround.

Given the following XPath _expression_ which would be valid for
XHTML....

"/html/head/title"

would have to be modified to the following for HTML

"/HTML/HEAD/TITLE"

That is, unless one uses a nifty trick (some might call it a
hack)

"/*[name()='html' or name()='HTML']/*[name()='head' or
name()='HEAD']/*[name()='title' or name()='TITLE']"


I actually tested that with Jaxen and it works.  However, JXPath
returns nothing.  Jaxen is much better about following the spec as
far as I can tell and if we are moving to DOM4J in XMLC-3.0, we will get
Jaxen support out-of-the-box, since that is what DOM4J's XPath
implementation is based upon.

Anyway, I'll keep on the Jaxen guys to support the HTML DOM in a
case-insensitive way.

Jake

At 11:24 AM 6/24/2003 -0500, you wrote:
> At 08:33 AM 6/24/2003 -0700, you
> wrote:
> > Richard Kunze
> > <kunze@xxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > > > but if the former, then this change would be very, very nice to
> > have.
> > > 
> > > Lets put it on the agenda for XMLC 3.0. A new DOM implementation is
> > pretty 
> > > much a given for XMLC 3.0 anyway, so we can just as well include
> > case 
> > > insensitive XPath support for HTML.
> >
> > Guys, this will break tons of code and it will no longer be W3C 
> > HTML
> > compatiable DOM.  This is a either a bug or missing feature in
> > XPath, depending on your point of view...  Submit a patch to em, the
> > logic
> > for checking for an HTML doc is easy:
> >
> >     if (node.getDocument() instanceof
> > org.w3c.dom.html.HTMLDocument) {  
> >         .....
> >     }
>
> Agreed.  I'll ask the guys at Jaxen (used in DOM4j and elsewhere)
> and JXPath what their take on this issue is.  The XPath engine is
> probably where the case-sensitivity issues should be addressed rather
> than storing a non-standard DOM.
>
> Jake
>
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