Re: find and replace in javascript with XMLDOM object

[Bryan Tarantina]
> Hopefully this will be a very simple answer. I have a
> javascript that takes an XML and an XSL document and
> transforms them into a variable.
>
> var htmloutput =  newxmlDoc.transformNode(newxslDoc)
>
> that done, I want to search the htmloutput variable
> for a string and replace:
>
> var htmlout = htmloutput.replace(/&lt;/, "<");
> document.write(htmlout);
>
> this works, but only for the first line... how can I
> find and replace *every* occurrence?
>

You should find some less bizarre way to proceed.  But for your inmmediate
javascript question:

var htmlout = htmloutput.replace(/&lt;/g, "<");

The "g" makes hte match global.

Cheers,

Tom P


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