JavaScript recursion does not work properly

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Published on 2010-04-13T03:23:33Z Indexed on 2010/04/13 3:33 UTC
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Hi,

Could anyone say why the following recursive function does not work for me ? It should collect recursively all radio buttons in a given element. But, it does not found any for some reason !?

Thanks !!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="Windows-1255"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript"> 
        function AllInputs(radioElement) {
            this.radioInputs = ((arguments.length == 1) ? [radioElement] : []);
        }

        AllInputs.prototype.toString = function() {
            return "[object AllInputs: radioInputs: " + this.radioInputs.length + "]";
        }

        AllInputs.prototype.add = function(otherAllInputs) {
            this.radioInputs = this.radioInputs.concat(otherAllInputs.radioInputs);
        }

        function getAllInputsOfElement(element) {
            if (element.tagName.toLowerCase() == "input") {
                if (element.getAttribute("type").toLowerCase() == "radio") {
                    return new AllInputs(element);
                } else {
                    return new AllInputs();
                }
            } else {
                var result = new AllInputs();

                for (i = 0; i < element.children.length; i++) {
                    result.add(getAllInputsOfElement(element.children[i]));
                }

                return result;
            }
        }

        function main() {
            alert(getAllInputsOfElement(document.getElementById("MyTable")));
        }
    </script>
</head>

<body onload="main()">
    <table id="MyTable">
        <tr><td>Day</td></tr>

        <tr><td>
            <input type="radio" name="DayOfTheWeek" value="1" /><label>Monday</label>
            <input type="radio" name="DayOfTheWeek" value="2" /><label>Tuesday</label>
            <input type="radio" name="DayOfTheWeek" value="3" /><label>Wednesday</label>
        </td></tr>
    </table>
</body>
</html>

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