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February 22, 2010
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id attributes being dropped by TextConverter

  • February 22, 2010
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I'm trying to import a well-formed bit of HTML where the span nodes have id attributes meaningful for later use in my application.  However, running the usual TextConverter.importToFlow call results in a TextFlow where the corresponding SpanElements do not have their id properties initialized.

var simple:XML = <p><span  id="hello">world</span></p>;

var textFlow:TextFlow =  TextConverter.importToFlow(simple.toXMLString(),  TextConverter.TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT);

var helloSpan:FlowElement =  textFlow.getElementByID("hello");

Contrary to expectations, the helloSpan is always null.  Poking through the textFlow children, one can see that the id value for our span is null.

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Correct answer robin_briggs

I see the issues, and I agree it makes sense to do this. I've logged it as a feature request.

Thanks for reporting it!

- robin

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rdermer
Adobe Employee
February 23, 2010

TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT does not support the id attribute except on <img> elements.

For that example you could use TEXT_LAYOUT_FORMAT instead of TEXT_FIELD_HTML_FORMAT.

BTW: Any reason you convert the XML to a String before calling importToFlow?  TLF will accept XML as the first parameter.  As is TLF just converts the XML to a string.

Hope that helps,

Richard

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TLFanAuthor
Participating Frequently
February 23, 2010

Yeah, after reading through the current in-source documentation, I saw that id is not supported for the HTML parser.  (The toXMLString call was just some residual cargo-cultage).

My question can now be refined to "will id attributes eventually be supported?" and its corollary, "why not?"

It seems a waste to drop data without good reason.

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Adobe Employee
robin_briggsCorrect answer
Adobe Employee
February 24, 2010

I see the issues, and I agree it makes sense to do this. I've logged it as a feature request.

Thanks for reporting it!

- robin

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