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Re: Built-in string functions clobber strings in array?

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Gregor Kofler wrote:

> Am 2012-07-09 05:01, terphenyl meinte:
>> var allLinks = content.document.getElementsByTagName("a");
>> […]
>>
>> I thought the elements of allLinks were strings
> 
> allLLinks is a collection of DOM elements.

It refers to a NodeList of references to DOM element objects, which in the 
Gecko DOM also implements the HTMLCollection interface (for reasons I do not 
understand).

> , and, to be conservative
>> copied the strings to a different variable (txt) and then tried a string
>> operation (or two) on that variable.
> 
> An internal toString() method is invoked (which - here in FF - gives you
> the href attribute value of the anchor). However, they are not strings
> and don't provide string methods. Try something like allLinks[jj].href
> which holds a string.

Caveat: The value of the `href' property, and the return value of the 
toString() method, might not reflect the value of the `href' attribute; in 
fact, it may represent the (absolute) URI for a given (relative) URI-
reference (see RFC 3986).  In order to be sure about the value, you would 
need to use getAttribute("href"), but there is IE/MSHTML.

Therefore, ISTM that you need to strip the protocol, host, and path part of 
the current document from the property value before you attempt a match.


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when you had very little chance of reading a document written on another
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Built-in string functions clobber strings in array? terphenyl <terphenyl@hotmail.com> - 2012-07-08 20:01 -0700
  Re: Built-in string functions clobber strings in array? Gregor Kofler <usenet@gregorkofler.com> - 2012-07-09 10:36 +0200
    Re: Built-in string functions clobber strings in array? terphenyl@hotmail.com - 2012-07-09 12:39 -0700
    Re: Built-in string functions clobber strings in array? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2012-07-09 22:09 +0200

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