If there is no reliable way to ensure an ID is there,
that function call is marginalized. You need a
getElementByName(name).
len
-----Original Message-----
From: Champion, Mike [mailto:]
I'd like to use getElementById() in well-formed XML, or when processing
instances of a DTD I don't control but for which I "know" that a certain
attribute has unique values. If I could easily slip in an id-ness
declaration out of band somehow, the DOM implementation will do a fair
amount of work for me that is tedious to do by hand. I'm not a heavy user of
XSLT, but I suspect that a similar use case exists for the id() function.
