<p>Can you not use <code>document_find_by_id()</code> as is recommended by the <a href="http://www.geany.org/manual/reference/document_8h.html#ad1bf4d7a9d5bd299793ef7a9164891ad">API docs</a>?</p>

<p>But, as its documented to be in the API it looks simply like its a bug.</p>

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