Posted by Erik Franz�n on 09/29/87 11:32

My real problem is that I am building a XML tree and I want to use the
getElementbyId method on the tree directly.

It would be very nice if it is possible to do it without including a
external dtd, since it takes some time to load every time.

The page http://blog.bitflux.ch/wiki/GetElementById_Pitfalls have some
information about my issue, but I have not found the path to go yet.

I am using php5.05 on Win32.


/Erik



Rob wrote:
> Jared Williams wrote:
>
>>
>> There is no real standard for creating DTDs on the fly, and therefore
>> libxml/DOM doesn't have any methods afaik.
>>
>> The one method DOMElement::setIDAttribute() should work I think, but
>> whilst PHP has the method, doesn’t seem todo anything. :/
>
>
> DocumentType nodes are read-only in DOM thus cannot be built on the fly.
> Also notice that not all components, such as ATTLIST, even have a node
> type.
>
> setIDAttribute - thats on the TODO list. Were some previous libxml
> issues to be resolved before that could be implemented (so it will be
> added, but require a minimum libxml2 version to work).
> Can always use xml:id attributes for that purpose for now though.
>
> Rob
>

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