Re: [xmlc] getElementsByTagName in XHTML ?

At 08:06 PM 8/11/2005 -0500, you wrote:
>At 11:27 PM 8/11/2005 +0200, you wrote:
> >Jacob Kjome pí¹e v Pá 05. 08. 2005 v 10:46 -0500:

>I guess I'm still unclear on the results, though.  I suspected that you
>were mistakenly reporting this because you had stated that you expected the
>results to be children of the current tag, plus the current tag
>itself.  That's clearly wrong.  It should only be the children.  So, you
>say you tested this?  What were your results?  More below...
>
> >>  If you were to do node.getElementsByTagName("td") and the
> >> current node is a "td", I wouldn't expect to have any results returned
>unless
> >> you were using nested tables.
> >
> >well of course I did node.getParentNode().getElementsByTagName("td").
>
>Which, again, unless you were using nested tables, would return an empty
>node list so it would be pretty pointless to do.
>

Whoops, I meant a nodelist of 1 element which, of course, is the original 
node that you already had a handle on.  That's why it's pointless, not that 
it would return an empty list, but a list of 1 node which you already knew 
about, so why bother?

Jake 



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