From: James Britt <james.britt@...>
Date: 2006-07-28T02:02:06+09:00
Subject: Re: getElementById on a SVG object

Guillaume Rosset wrote:
> Hi all, I would like to know if it is possible to retreive a SVG object 
> (in fact an image in a vector format that needs aa Adobe plugin to be 
> displayed) by writing something like
> 
> mySVGObject = ie.document.getElementById(SVGId);
> 
> ?
> 
> Then if it works, is it possible to explore the SVG XML tree with the 
> same getElementById method (SVG image is represented as an XML file).

Look at the API for REXML, the XML parser that comes with Ruby.

http://www.ruby-doc.org/stdlib/libdoc/rexml/rdoc/

For example

my_xml_dom_obj.elements.to_a( "//[@id=#{SVGId}]" ).first


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