Re: Stray quote from <xsl:value-of/> causing a string termin

Banker, Arjun wrote:
> 
> In the web page I'm generating using XSL, I'm using javascript to write
> values from an XML file.  For example, it would be something like this:

Ah yes, Dynamic generation of Javascript. I now have several templates
which combine 3-4 Languages in one file.

Quickest work-around is to use " instead of ' in your code.

document.write("   <xsl:value-of select="row-header/"/> " );

It looks like crap at first glance, but XSL is quite happy with it.

You can go 
document.write("   <xsl:value-of select='row-header/'/> " );
If it feels tidier.

Otherwise consider validating your input data earlier in the process.
Stray apostrophies are no fun anyway so maybe you should be storing them
as (the numeric equivalent of) &apos; in your source.

But you're right, there should be a nice XSL way of doing it that can
handle the general case, and eliminate not only ' and " but newlines
too, as that will also kill javascript if you use it as in your example.

I'm sure someone else here can fill that in ...



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