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

[Aaron Patterson <aaron patterson gmail com>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 7:50 AM, Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> wrote:
> 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 !

Thank you for the fix!

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