On Aug 25, 2006, at 1:08 PM, Rob Burns wrote:

On Aug 25, 2006, at 2:13 AM, Maciej Stachowiak wrote:

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Elements in an HTML document will generate the specific subclasses. However, the document object will not be an HTMLDocument (at least not currently - we may reconsider this in the future; there are complications with things like document.write).

OK, now I'm seeing the behavior you expected. However, there's a strange side-effect to this. The elements existing in the document upon load are instantiated as DOMHTML* subclasses while the elements I create with the DOMDocument createElement are now DOMElement classes. So now I have meta elements of class DOMelement and meta elements of class DOMHTMLMetaElement. I can work with this, but its a bit peculiar.

If you want to make HTML elements from an XML document you have to use createElementNS with the xhtml namespace, not createElement. Regards, Maciej