Re: [xml] HTML, XPath and the id() function

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Oct 13, 2009 at 05:13:28PM -0700, Aaron Patterson wrote:
> I'm seeing a strange behavior when using the id() xpath function with
> HTML documents.  If the HTML document contains a DOCTYPE, the id()
> function works as expected.  If the HTML document does not contain a
> DOCTYPE, the id() function does not work (even with document
> correction enabled).  Is this a bug, or am I missing something?
>
> I've written a short example to illustrate the problem here (I'm using
> libxml2 2.7.5):
>
>     http://gist.github.com/209686

  Hum, good point, I just commited a fix for this in git head, a
1 line fix in xmlIsID()

  thanks for the report !

Daniel

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