getIdentifier problem

[Christian NENTWICH <c....@cs.ucl.ac.uk>]

Dear all,

the documentation of getIdentifier says that the function looks up ids
that have been "pre-registered". Does that mean I have to call
putIdentifier or will it recognize attributes of type ID automatically ?
(please say yes, please :)

Calling getIdentifier("n1") on the document pasted below returns null.
I've got rather huge documents, so going through them manually and
calling putIdentifier on each id attribute will be tedious. 

Christian



<?xml version='1.0' standalone="yes"?>
<!DOCTYPE idtest [
<!ELEMENT idtest (node*)>
<!ELEMENT node (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST node 
   id ID #REQUIRED
   child IDREF #REQUIRED
>
]>
<idtest>

  <node id="n1" child="n2">node 1</node>
  <node id="n2" child="n3">node 2</node>
  <node id="n3" child="n4">node 3</node>
  <node id="n4" child="n2">node 4</node>
</idtest>

Re: getIdentifier problem

[Christian NENTWICH <c....@cs.ucl.ac.uk>]

> > the documentation of getIdentifier says that the function looks up
> > ids that have been "pre-registered". Does that mean I have to call
> > putIdentifier or will it recognize attributes of type ID
> > automatically ? (please say yes, please :)
> 
> Yes... with the requirement that you have a grammar for your
> document and you have validation turned on.

Ah yes, now it all makes sense. Thanks a lot for that... it's so obvious
afterwards... We had already implemented our own ID function :)

This is a good one for the faq :)

Christian

Re: getIdentifier problem

[Andy Clark <an...@apache.org>]

Christian NENTWICH wrote:
> the documentation of getIdentifier says that the function looks up 
> ids that have been "pre-registered". Does that mean I have to call
> putIdentifier or will it recognize attributes of type ID 
> automatically ? (please say yes, please :)

Yes... with the requirement that you have a grammar for your
document and you have validation turned on.

-- 
Andy Clark * IBM, JTC - Silicon Valley * andyc@apache.org