The difference is the xmlns declaration. The example requires an XHTML
resource to work.
In any case, IMHO, this example is a bit more complex than necessary.
Subbu
On Apr 17, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote:
Subbu Allamaraju wrote:
Yes, indeed. It works with the specific example you tried below
(using XHTML), but not for generic XML, which is what the draft is
using.
My test works the same way if I rename the file to "test.xml".
I'm not sure what you mean by "generic XML", especially because the
example in the draft doesn't have the document it's using but just
the filename. If you mean that if you put some random XML that
doesn't have any attributes of type ID in the file, then
getElementById won't return anything... then that seems like a
tautology. None of the nodes have IDs in that case.
-Boris
