• To: "Champion, Mike" <Mike.Champion@S...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: So maybe ID isn't a problem after all.
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2001 08:10:19 -0600

If there is no reliable way to ensure an ID is there, 
that function call is marginalized.  You need a 
getElementByName(name).

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Champion, Mike [mailto:Mike.Champion@S...]

I'd like to use getElementById() in well-formed XML, or when processing
instances of a DTD I don't control but for which I "know" that a certain
attribute has unique values.  If I could easily slip in an id-ness
declaration out of band somehow, the DOM implementation will do a fair
amount of work for me that is tedious to do by hand. I'm not a heavy user of
XSLT, but I suspect that a similar use case exists for the id() function.

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