scripts can add methods to the prototypes of builtin objects in
JaavScript. I can assign functions to String.prototyp e.*, for
instance. I want to add a method to Node, but when I try to execute
the following IE says "'Node' is undefined." Mozilla works as I
expected it to. Is Node called something else in IE? Does IE not allow
manipulating the prototypes of some builtin objects?
Node.prototype. nt = function() {
return this.nodeType;
}
Ari.
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Ari Krupnik wrote:
scripts can add methods to the prototypes of builtin objects in
JaavScript. I can assign functions to String.prototyp e.*, for
instance. I want to add a method to Node, but when I try to execute
the following IE says "'Node' is undefined." Mozilla works as I
expected it to.
Well, actually Mozilla works in - maybe convenient in some
circumstances - but non-expected way.
prototype is property of a JavaScript object; DOM Node is not a
JavaScript object and it has nothing to do with say Object()
constructor (same way as say DIV element has nothing to do with Array
;-)
IE exposes the base [element] interface via behavior mechanics. This
way you can make say each <pelement to have AJAX interface or each
<divacting as media player. But in case of Node I really don't know
what to suggest as it is not an element in (X)HTML / XML sense, it is
unit one level below. Are you trying to uniformly augment every single
element on your page? What is your actual aim? (so maybe some solution
is possible).
Ari Krupnik wrote:
scripts can add methods to the prototypes of builtin objects in
JaavScript. I can assign functions to String.prototyp e.*, for
instance. I want to add a method to Node, but when I try to execute
the following IE says "'Node' is undefined." Mozilla works as I
expected it to. Is Node called something else in IE? Does IE not allow
manipulating the prototypes of some builtin objects?
Node.prototype. nt = function() {
return this.nodeType;
}
There is a base object for the DOM that implements the Node interface,
in Gecko browsers it's called "Node" and you can mess with the
prototype.
IE doesn't have a Node object, though you can extend DOM objects to
some extend using behaviours:
<URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/de...o/creating.asp
>
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scripts can add methods to the prototypes of builtin objects in
JaavScript. I can assign functions to String.prototyp e.*, for
instance. I want to add a method to Node, but when I try to execute
the following IE says "'Node' is undefined." Mozilla works as I
expected it to. Is Node called something else in IE? Does IE not allow
manipulating the prototypes of some builtin objects?
The Node is not a "built in object", it is a "host object" (or at least,
all objects implementing the Node interface in browser DOMs are host
objects), and host objects are not required to facilitate modification
of their prototypes, expose prototypes (even have prototypes) or expose
constructors.
As a result some hosts may provide those facilities (as Mozilla does)
and others may not (like IE). Both alternatives (and everything in
between) are completely in accordance with the javascript language
specification, and no other specifications (such as the W3C DOM, and its
ECMAScript bindings) has attempted to apply any additional constraints
on host objects in the web browser context.
Richard.
"VK" <sc**********@y ahoo.comwrites:
Ari Krupnik wrote:
>scripts can add methods to the prototypes of builtin objects in
JavaScript. I can assign functions to String.prototyp e.*, for
instance. I want to add a method to Node, but when I try to execute
the following IE says "'Node' is undefined." Mozilla works as I
expected it to.
Well, actually Mozilla works in - maybe convenient in some
circumstances - but non-expected way.
I said "the way I expected it to," being fully aware that my
expectation may not be grounded in any reality :=)
Are you trying to uniformly augment every single
element on your page? What is your actual aim? (so maybe some solution
is possible).
I have a bunch of functions that provide XPath-style navigation of the
DOM. Functions like followingSiblin g(node, predicate) that find the
closest sibling in document order for which the function 'predicate'
returns true. Also functions like textValue(node) that concatenates
all character data within a node. Most of these are not specific to
Element, e.g. textValue() of TextNode is its nodeValue. I wanted to
make these functions methods of Node so I could call them as
node.textValue( ) instead of textValue(node) .
It's not that big of a deal. Thanks for explaining the difference
between String and Node to me. I had not internalized the difference
between builtin types and host objects.
Ari.
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Ari Krupnik wrote:
"VK" <sc**********@y ahoo.comwrites:
Ari Krupnik wrote:
scripts can add methods to the prototypes of builtin objects in
JavaScript. I can assign functions to String.prototyp e.*, for
instance. I want to add a method to Node, but when I try to execute
the following IE says "'Node' is undefined." Mozilla works as I
expected it to.
Well, actually Mozilla works in - maybe convenient in some
circumstances - but non-expected way.
I said "the way I expected it to," being fully aware that my
expectation may not be grounded in any reality :=)
Are you trying to uniformly augment every single
element on your page? What is your actual aim? (so maybe some solution
is possible).
I have a bunch of functions that provide XPath-style navigation of the
DOM. Functions like followingSiblin g(node, predicate) that find the
closest sibling in document order for which the function 'predicate'
returns true. Also functions like textValue(node) that concatenates
all character data within a node. Most of these are not specific to
Element, e.g. textValue() of TextNode is its nodeValue. I wanted to
make these functions methods of Node so I could call them as
node.textValue( ) instead of textValue(node) .
No, what you're looking to do isn't possible directly, but you could
write wrappers that would give you the interface you're looking for.
See for instance jQuery, which is basically a wrapper framework; also,
if you want to use XPath you can use XPath directly - though IE doesn't
expose XPath for HTML documents, there's an LGPL implementation: http://js-xpath.sourceforge.net/
which tricks IE into thinking the currently loaded HTML document is an
MSXML-loaded document. And Firefox allows XPath natively with HTML.
(Unfortunately there's no easy solution for Safari and Opera.)
-David
David Golightly wrote:
[...]
No, what you're looking to do isn't possible directly, but you could
write wrappers that would give you the interface you're looking for.
See for instance jQuery, which is basically a wrapper framework; also,
if you want to use XPath you can use XPath directly - though IE doesn't
expose XPath for HTML documents, there's an LGPL implementation:
http://js-xpath.sourceforge.net/
which tricks IE into thinking the currently loaded HTML document is an
MSXML-loaded document. And Firefox allows XPath natively with HTML.
(Unfortunately there's no easy solution for Safari and Opera.)
The WebKit open source project started releasing XPath support in Aug
06[1], it should be picked up by Safari with OS X 10.5.
That puts Safari more-or-less on par with IE in terms of XPath support,
but unfortunately keeps XPath as practically useless on the web for
another couple of years.
It should start to to be viable for intranet or specialist web
applications though.
1. <URL: http://webkit.org/blog/?p=65 >
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Rob
RobG wrote:
David Golightly wrote:
which tricks IE into thinking the currently loaded HTML document is an
MSXML-loaded document. And Firefox allows XPath natively with HTML.
(Unfortunately there's no easy solution for Safari and Opera.)
The WebKit open source project started releasing XPath support in Aug
06[1], it should be picked up by Safari with OS X 10.5.
That puts Safari more-or-less on par with IE in terms of XPath support,
but unfortunately keeps XPath as practically useless on the web for
another couple of years.
On looking into it a little further, it appears that Opera, much like
IE, has XPath support, but only for XML documents and not HTML. Unlike
IE, fortunately, it's W3DOM compliant. So I bet with a little
determination someone could harness Opera's XPath support for DHTML.
Safari, of course, remains a problem at the present time.
However, for those with huge Ajax apps who don't mind the bandwidth
loss in exchange for the flexibility of XPath, Google's got an
XSLT/XPath implementation entirely in JavaScript which works in all
modern browsers and will if nothing else prove an interesting study: http://code.google.com/p/ajaxslt/
David
"David Golightly" <da******@gmail .comwrites:
Ari Krupnik wrote:
>>
I have a bunch of functions that provide XPath-style navigation of the
DOM. Functions like followingSiblin g(node, predicate) that find the
closest sibling in document order for which the function 'predicate'
returns true. Also functions like textValue(node) that concatenates
all character data within a node. Most of these are not specific to
Element, e.g. textValue() of TextNode is its nodeValue. I wanted to
make these functions methods of Node so I could call them as
node.textValue () instead of textValue(node) .
if you want to use XPath you can use XPath directly - though IE doesn't
expose XPath for HTML documents, there's an LGPL implementation:
http://js-xpath.sourceforge.net/
which tricks IE into thinking the currently loaded HTML document is an
MSXML-loaded document.
How does it do that? When I need to run an XSLT transformation on an
HTML document in IE, I walk the HTML DOM and construct an X(HT)ML DOM
based on it that IE can transform natively. Are you saying there is a
way to make IE believe that an MSHTML document is an MSXML document
with corresponding methods on its nodes, without copying it over?
Ari.
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"David Golightly" <da******@gmail .comwrites:
On looking into it a little further, it appears that Opera, much like
IE, has XPath support, but only for XML documents and not HTML. Unlike
IE, fortunately, it's W3DOM compliant.
Could you explain the difference, and how being compliant is
unfortunate? I have no experience with client-side XSLT outside of IE
and FF.
However, for those with huge Ajax apps who don't mind the bandwidth
loss in exchange for the flexibility of XPath, Google's got an
XSLT/XPath implementation entirely in JavaScript which works in all
modern browsers and will if nothing else prove an interesting study:
http://code.google.com/p/ajaxslt/
I thought the way ajaxslt is implemented in browsers without native
XSLT support was by sending a serialized document to a server,
parsing and transforming it there, then serializing it again, sending
it back and parsing it again on the client. Was I wrong? That sounds a
bit complicated for finding the character data content of a node,
which is the type of processing that I need :=)
Ari.
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