Re: how to call Javascript function in .xsl file

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Subject: Re: how to call Javascript function in .xsl file
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 08 Nov 1998 11:30:47 -0600

Amit Rekhi wrote:
> 
> Why should adding HTML JavaScript code to template be a problem.
> Can't I have a pattern rule like :-
> 
> <xsl:template match="/">
> <HTML>
>    <HEAD>
>      <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="JavaScript"><![CDATA[
>         function Test()
>         {
> ....
> 
> Is not this a valid template ?

It is valid, but the XML processor will probably not understand the
behaviour of the SCRIPT element. Thus it will presume that less-than
symbols should be entity-ized on output. But HTML browsers do not expect
this. The fundamental problem is that HTML is *NOT* XML compatible but the
output of an XSL processor is XML. A smart enough XML processor can embed
special knowledge about HTML and HTMLize the output, but they are not
required to.

XSL is for XML->XML transformations, not XML->HTML transformations. 

<grumble>The SCRIPT element was always broken. It was alternately defined
in ways that were incompatible with SGML and then used SGML features that
were widely deprecated. Now they've been officially deprecated (in XML)
and we're stuck with incompatibility.</grumble>

See:
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#notes-specifying-data

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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Re: how to call Javascript function in .xsl file, (continued) Chris Maden - Fri, 6 Nov 1998 11:30:36 -0500 (EST) Andrew Bunner - Fri, 06 Nov 1998 09:47:48 -0800 Tyler Baker - Fri, 06 Nov 1998 14:39:53 -0500 Amit Rekhi - Sat, 7 Nov 1998 09:47:23 +0530 Paul Prescod - Sun, 08 Nov 1998 11:30:47 -0600 <=

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