RE: stripping newlines

You can have carriage returns in javascript strings:

setHTML(' bla \
 bla ');

is the same as:

setHTML(' bla bla ');


Now in XSLT if you have a variable which contains your html (named myHTML)
you can do something like:

setHTML( '<xsl:value-of select='translate($myHTML, "&#10;", "\\ &#10")'
/>' );

(&#10; is a carriage return) though you probably want to escape the quotes
in the myHTML output:

setHTML( '<xsl:value-of select='translate(translate($myHTML, "&#10;", "\\
&#10"), "\'", "\\\'")' />' );

I'm not sure if that is the right escaping...


Andrew.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Matt
> Alexander
> Sent: September 5, 2001 12:16 PM
> To: 'xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx'
> Subject:  stripping newlines
>
>
>
> hi,
>
> i'm creating an html page with javascript in it.
>
> inside one of the js calls, setHTML('') i can't have any carriage returns,
> or it is an 'unterminated string'.
> the only way i've been able to get around this is to right my transform as
> one big chunk of xslt w/out any carriage returns. this makes it ugly and
> hard to update, so i'm, hoping to find a transform that would take my
> transform and create a new transform without any carriage return between
> elements.  xsl:strip-space, never catches all of the returns.
>
> i need...
> blah.setHTML('<table><tr><td><etc..../></td></tr></table>');
>
> but i always end up with...
>
> blah.setHTML('<table><tr>
> <td><etc..../></td>
> </tr></table>');
>
> or something like that. i don't know if there is anything that
> will do this
> in xslt, but i'd appreciate any help...
>
> thanks,
> -matt
>
>
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