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Mozilla actually implements DOM Level 3 XPath [1]. For a cross browser
solution take a look at sarissa [2], where IE's stuff are actually emulated.
[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath/
[2] http://sarissa.sourceforge.net/
hth,
Manos
Henrik Martensson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-04-06 at 17:49, Tomas Olsson wrote:
>
>>Hi!
>>
>>Is it possible to use xpath and javascript together?
>>I would like to choose parts of a XML document with xpath and use the
>>result in a javascript. How shold I do?
>
>
> Whether you can use XPath or not has got nothing to do with whether you
> are using JavaScript. What you need is an XML parser with XPath support,
> and of course, you need to be able to use the parser from JavaScript.
>
> Microsoft's MSXML has XPath support, and you can use it from JavaScript.
> the XPath support is described in the documentation. However, you should
> be aware that MSXML does have some limitations:
>
> * You can't remap SYSTEM and PUBLIC identifiers in DOCTYPE declarations
> * Namespace attributes must be normalized (included in the document
> instance). Just having them declared in a DTD doesn't work.
> * MSXML may mash some Unicode characters. You will probably be fine if
> your documents are in English, or most other Western European
> languages, but you can get into trouble with some Asian ones.
>
> Oh, by the way, you can instantiate the parser like this:
>
> var parser = new ActiveXObject("Msxml2.DOMDocument.4.0");
>
> The string may vary depending on the parser version.
>
> /Henrik
>
>
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