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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Subject: Re: Recursive function to find a node in the DOM
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2015 12:34:19 +0200
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> […]  You can use the getElementsByName(…) method for that;
> it is available on HTML document objects in implementations of W3C DOM
> Level 2 HTML (since 2003) and HTML5.
> 
> The getElementsByName(…) method is not available on element objects (at
> least not in a standards-compliant way; implementations may vary);
> however, the getElementsByTagName(…) method is, starting from IE/MSHTML
> 5.5 at the latest.  That method can be called as 
> element.getElementsByTagName("*"), and the resulting NodeList can be
> filtered, if you do not want to be tied to a specific “tagName” property
> value.  If all else fails, the return value of 
> document.getElementsByTagName("*") can be filtered.

[References that were accidentally cut from the draft: ]

<https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/dom.html#dom-tree-accessors:dom-document-getelementsbyname>

<http://www.w3.org/TR/dom/#dom-element-getelementsbytagname>

> Higher Levels of the W3C DOM, implemented in recent Web layout engines,
> support other such methods that are more flexible, too:
> document.evaluate(…) for XPath queries, and document.querySelector(…) and
> document.querySelectorAll() for CSS queries.

<http://www.w3.org/TR/DOM-Level-3-XPath/xpath.html#XPathEvaluator-evaluate>

<http://www.w3.org/TR/2013/REC-selectors-api-20130221/#interface-definitions>
 
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