On: Libvirt – The Unsung Hero of Cloud Computing (2013)

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Parent asked what's wrong with XML, not what's wrong with DOM. Does XML actually even define a special meaning for the `id` attribute?

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The XML element object always has this function, in every implementation I’ve seen.

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That does not make any sense. There are entire classes of XML parser that cannot implement getElementByID, such as streaming parsers. getElementByID is specified as part of the Document Object Model (DOM), not as part of XML. I don't think `id` even has a special meaning in XML.