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Thanks
But if I have another file c.xml which has the same Date element ID as in B,
I would be confused which one to read?
How can I make sure I want only b.xml not c.xml?
Is xpointer useful?. I have no idea on this!
> >-----Original Message-----
> >From: Mike Champion [mailto:mc@xegesis.org]
> >Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 4:49 PM
> >To: 'Xml-Dev (E-mail)'
> >Subject: Re: [xml-dev] RE: linking and DOM
> >
> >
> >7/16/2002 4:30:14 PM, "Yallala, Bhaskar"
> ><B_Yallala@DirectAdvice.com> wrote:
> >
> >>> > <Date Interval>
> >>> > <start><Date>xyz</Date></<start>
> >>> > <limit><Date>pqr</Date></<limit>
> >>> > </Date Interval>
> >>> >
> >>> >And I have another file called b.xml, in which Date with ID=
> >>> >xyz is present.
> >>> >
> >>> >How can I parse this using DOM and how can I refer in a.xml
> >>> >, how to goto b.xml's xyz ID?
> >
> >Load a and b in separate DOM Document objects A and B.
> >Extract the value of
> >the element or attribute in A that you want to look up in B
> >into a variable,
> >call it "x". Then pass "x" to B's getElementById() method
> >on B. You'll
> >get back an Element object where it's ID attribute has the
> >value contained
> >in X.
> >
> >You will need to declare that the Date elment has an ID
> >attribute called ID
> >in a DTD or Schema governing B, or getElementById can't
> >work. One nice thing
> >about HTML/XHTML is that their DOMs understand that "id" is
> >an "ID" attribute
> >without you having to tell it.
> >
> >Of course, if there are multiple Date elements with an ID
> >value equal to the value of
> >x, then undefined and unpleasant things will happen ...but a
> >validating
> >parser would warn you of that. I don't know if most
> >HTML/XHTML browsers will
> >warn you or not...
> >
> >By the way, getElementById() is defined in DOM LEvel 2, so
> >not all DOM
> >implementations will support it.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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