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>It does seem odd that with the advent of the DOM which really eases scripting and >makes it much more powerful that almost simultaneously problems occur that make >generating those scripts more difficult. Odd is on way to describe it, I would say "frustrating". >> Since HTML <= 4.0 is *not* XML, it is best to treat it as an output >> format, like PDF, TeX, RDF, Postscript, etc. -- in other words, first >> produce your XML, then run it through a filter (such as a SAX-based >> app) that does a down-translation to HTML syntax. This doesn't have to be a very complicated animal. If I wanted to, I could generate something that is ~almost~ HTML by doing things like <BR/> and <IMG .../>. From there, a one line regular expression would make my pages be readable by the major browsers. (Interesting aside, IE will display the right thing if you close a stand-along tag with />, but Netscape will not) It sounds like the smart thing to do is write an XML to HTML converter as you suggest. The scripting workaround isn't as hard as it seems. You're example of... document.write("She said "run"") ...would actually get turned into... document.write("She said &quot;run&quot;") So, if we just go through and replace all the predefined entities with the literal characters they represent, the workaround works. The fact that including a script in the generated file requires a seperate utility will, I expect, become a non-trivial barrier to the broader acceptance of XSL. I hope the working group chooses to address this in their second draft. <stating-the-obvious>Java Script engines are not easy things to write.</stating-the-obvious> I think it's unlikely that developers are going to redefine the Java Script language to interpret < as < ... my opinion (hope) is that the standard should accomodate this. -- Andrew Andrew Bunner President, Founder Mass Quantities, Inc. Professional Supplements for the Perfect Physique http://www.massquantities.com xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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