RE: Javascript looping expression in stylesheet

XSLT is XML, and all XML needs to escape certain characters. According
to the XML specification
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax), section 2.6,
Character Data and Markup:

The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) may appear in
their literal form only when used as markup delimiters, or within a
comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section. If they are
needed elsewhere, they must be escaped using either numeric character
references or the strings "& amp ;" and "& lt ;" respectively.

[NOTE: omit the space characters in the quotes - I've added those so
that some email programs don't thing they are HTML and render them as
characters!]

The reason for this is that ampersand and left angle bracket have
special meaning to XML: they indicate escaped characters and the start
of XML tags, respectively. Know your XML.

So if you've only got a few occurrences of these characters, you can use
the & amp ; and & lt ; symbols, or you can place the contents of the
text block in a CDATA section, such as this:

<xsl:text>
  <![CDATA[My funky text that uses < and & all the time...]]>
</xsl:text>

Cheers,
Stuart

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Zoe Peng
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:22
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject:  Javascript looping expression in stylesheet

Hi, 
I am going to include a javascript inside the stylesheet. It works in 
some javascripts. But, it fails when I try to use for function. 
some charactures can't escape such as for (var i = 1; i <= nom; i++) {}
It fails in = sign or & sign. any ideas? Thanks. 

--Zoe




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