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Hello, For Xopus I am building support for the key, keyref and unique declarations, and I was wondering if there are DOM methods defined somewhere that allows a programmer to use this extra structure in an XML document. I have found the XML Schema API, which is great for validation, but not for anything more. I was thinking of at least two methods: Element.getElementByKey(String keyName, Object fieldValue [, Object fieldValue]*): Element Works on instances of elements which have a declaration with a "key" or "unique" ID constraint with the name keyName. Returns the element that has the fieldValue(s) as key sequence or null otherwise. Element.resolveKeyReference(String keyName): Element Works on elements which are matched by a selector of the "keyref" declaration with the name keyName. Returns the element that matches the key sequence of the key reference. Does anyone know of such or similar methods? If not, would such methods be useful? (I have never worked with XML documents with key/keyrefs myself.) Are there any other methods that could be useful? Greetings, Sjoerd Visscher Xopus: http://xopus.com +31 (0)70 - 3699563 http://maps.google.com/?q=xopus+den+haag+nederland&z=18&t=h [Date Prev] | [Thread Prev] | [Thread Next] | [Date Next] -- [Date Index] | [Thread Index] |
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