Comments on: The dojo parser.

By: gtducati

gtducati — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:59:32 +0000

Ah … good, so I wasn’t going crazy Thanks!

By: dante

dante — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:57:38 +0000

Actually, it looks like there is no node id=”container” in the themeTester anymore … which means dojo.byId(”container”) is returning null || undefined, which means dojo.parser.parse() is being called without any arguments, thus parsing the entire body. Sorry for the confusion. I swear it did have and id=”container” at one point

By: gtducati

gtducati — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:48:55 +0000

Hey dante, thanks for the quick response. To clarify, when I said everything, I meant everything in the document body.

In any case, I was really just having problems with the statement “It scans the dom (or a portion of it) turning nodes with dojoType=”" attributes into declared classes”, I was confused about the use of dojoType=”" in said quote. I was assuming that the statement implied the parser was looking for ‘empty’ dojoType attributes, since the phrase dojoType=”" is used. In fact, all it’s really saying is that it scans the body for all nodes with a dojoType attribute with a qualified.class.name for rendering. So, yes, you did answer my question.

I do have another question; this one is in regards to the themeTester and its use of dojo.parser.parse(’container’) in the current 1.1.0 release. What is this exactly looking for? How is dojo.parser.parse(’container’) rendering the entire themeTester? Does ‘container’ imply the document body too? Am I missing something here? Thanks in advance.

By: dante

dante — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 15:15:16 +0000

dojo.body() is everything? You can’t have markup outside of body, so when you call dojo.parser.parse() or dojo.parser.parse(dojo.body()) it’s identical. or perhaps I’m missing your question.

By: gtducati

gtducati — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:58:32 +0000

I really like this cookie; however, there are two conflicting statements made concerning the call: dojo.parser.parse();

You first say that the document is scanned for all types of dojoType=”". However, in the Dojo-Preloader example their is a comment that says “// run the parser. defaults to dojo.body()”, which indicates that the call of “dojo.parser.parse();” is essentially scanning everything for rendering. Which is it?

I’ve tested this myself, and it seems that the latter is true.