But I bet writing a simple Filter and using getDescendants(Filter) would :-)

Brad

Mike Brenner writes:

> This does not work like, say, getElementById in an
> xml svg file, which searches all levels. This code
> only searches one level.
>
> > No, no, no. Document.getElementById(String id) would return the Element
> > that has an attribute whith type ID_ATTRIBUTE and which value is equal to
> > the id parameter. The name of the attribute is irrelevant.
> >
> > It should behave exactly as org.w3c.dom.Document#getElementById(String id)
> >
> > It is very easy to implement:
> >
> > Element getElementById(String value) {
> >   for(Iterator i = getDescendants(); i.hasNext(); ) {
> >     Object node = i.next();
> >     if (node instanceof Element) {
> >       Element e = (Element) node;
> >       for(Iterator j = e.getAttributes().iterator(); j.hasNext();) {
> >         Attribute a = (Attribute) j.next();
> >         if (a.getAttributeType() == Attribute.ID_TYPE &&
> >            value.equals(a.getValue())
> >         {
> >           return e;
> >         }
> >       }
> >     }
> >   }
> >   return null;
> > }
> >
> > Probably performs like dog for large documents, but then you could enhance
> it
> > with Laurent's mapping solution.
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