Re: [xmlc] 2.3beta getElementById() behavior

Quoting Erik Rasmussen <rasmussenerik@xxxxxxxxx>:

> I knew pasting my options.xmlc in there would help!  :-)
>
> On Jan 25, 2007, at 6:01 PM, Jacob Kjome wrote:
> > 1.  Should it be expected that importNode()/adoptNode() register
> > attributes that
> > were of type "ID" in the source document with the destination
> > document?  I've
> > asked this question on the Xerces user list and am awaiting a
> > response.
>
> Yes.  But I'm biased.
>

Michael Glavassevich, on the Xerces list, pointed me to these.  [2] is the one
that originally convinced him that keeping ID'ness is not only unnecessary, but
not desirable, but he says he's not so sure now...

[1] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?t=109836916900003&r=1&w=2
[2] http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=xerces-j-dev&m=109838807214629&w=2

> > 2.  No matter the outcome of #1, should the XHTML DOM provide the
> > same fallback
> > mechanism that the HTML DOM has, allowing lookup to succeed, albeit
> > with
> > decreased performance than lookups of Ids that were originally in the
> > destination document at parse time?
>
> Yes.  For all the same reasons that it's in the HTML DOM.
>

I think I'll have to reinstate it in the XHTML DOM.

> Which of these issues do you have control over and which do you have
> to convince Xerces to implement?

#1 is a matter of the Xerces team implementing it properly.  #2 is something I
have full control over in XMLC and will do this for the next releases (2.3beta3
and 2.2.14).

>
> > BTW, the XHTML DOM implements the HTML DOM interfaces.  I suggest
> > you use those
> > interfaces rather than the XHTML interfaces.  It will make you code
> > more
> > generic.
>
> Yes, I know.  It's a mistake that I have yet to correct.  I never
> plan to use non-XML-compliant HTML code, but I agree that using the
> more generic interface would make my code better.
>
> Erik





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