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Posted to c-dev@xerces.apache.org by Stephen Crawley <cr...@dstc.edu.au> on 2000/12/06 06:45:08 UTC

Bug in Xerces 1.2.2 (?) -- getElementById() fails without validation

I'm trying to use Document.getElementId() on an Xerces 1.2.2 DOM
Document object created as follows:

   DOMParser parser = new DOMParser();\
   parser.parse(input);
   doc = parser.getDocument();

a getElementById("someId") call returns null, and getIdentifiers() is
returning an empty enumeration.  

If I enable DTD validation before parsing the document; i.e.

  parser.setFeature("http://xml.org/sax/features/validation", true);

then getElementById("someId") works.

Is this a bug?  

-- Steve