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 Sorry if this is obvious, but I looked in the archives for a solution
and didn't see it. Thanks in advance.
-- Jim Palmer
Manager, Human Interface
Liberate Technologies, Inc.
650-631-5237
http://www.liberate.com
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Problem 1: Imagine you need an HTML attribute such as BACKGROUND to be
computed in a page's run time context. So I want to use a javascript
entity in the final HTML (though javascript is not essential to the
problem):
<BODY BACKGROUND="&{backgroundUrl}" ... >
The following naive solution doesn't work
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<SCRIPT>
var backgroundUrl = foo();
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY background = "&{backgroundUrl};">
Whatever
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
presumably since "&" isn't in the HTML name space except for HTML
entities (such as &) and "{}" are for attribute value templates in
xsl.
Is there some obvious way to get the literal text in there
(xsl:constant?).
Variant: Lets say the some part of the body HTML needs to be decided at
run time; I have no problem in general including javascript in the
output (or any other elements not in the HTML namespace) -- they come
out fine -- _except_ when I have to document.write the HTML (I
understand that this may be impossible due to nested quoting, etc.) --
the xsl continues to try to parse the HTML. Assume that all the HTML
tags do match:
<xsl:template match="/">
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<SCRIPT>
var fullScreen = foo();
</SCRIPT>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<SCRIPT>
if (fullScreen)
document.write(
'<FORM NAME="buttons" />',
'<TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0"
/>',
'<TR>',
'<TD><SPACER TYPE="horizontal" SIZE="12" /></TD>',
...
)
else
document.write( .... )
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>
</HTML>
</xsl:template>
I invariably get "tags don't match" type errors, even though they do.
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