[xmljs-users] Comparision values returned by getAttribute()

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It seems like comparing the string value returned by
getAttribute() always results in failure even though
they have the same value:

<HTML>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<script src="../jsXMLParser/xmlw3cdom.js"></script>
<script src="../jsXMLParser/xmlsax.js"></script>
<script>
function foo(){
	var strXML = "<root id=\"root\"><child
id=\"child1\"/><child id=\"child1\"/></root>";

	//instantiate the W3C DOM Parser
	var parser = new DOMImplementation();

	//load the XML into the parser and get the
DOMDocument
	var domDoc = parser.loadXML(strXML);

	var children =
domDoc.getDocumentElement().getChildNodes();

	var str1 = children.item(0).getAttribute("id");
	var str2 = children.item(1).getAttribute("id")

	alert ("str1 = " + str1 + ", str2 = " + str2);

	alert(str1 == str2); //always false  <========
}
</script>
<BODY onload="foo()">
</BODY>
</HTML>

Why is this? Is there a way around this?

thanks.
Sanjeev