RE: [saxon] unwanted line breaks in HTML output

Saxon never inserts newlines into HTML attribute values, only into text
nodes.

Perhaps you are producing this output using disable-output-escaping, so
Saxon thinks it is a text node? In that case, I would suggest that you
don't.

Generally I would recommend keeping "onClick" attributes short and
simple - just a call to a Javascript routine that appears somewhere else
in the HTML page. This is because (in my limited experience) browsers
are a bit sensitive to the way characters are represented in these
attributes, and XSLT doesn't give you control over the character
representation.

Michael Kay

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> Subject:  [saxon] unwanted line breaks in HTML output
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> 
> Is there a default line length that saxon uses to determine 
> when to start a
> new line in HTML output?
> 
> I'm outputting text inside an onClick tag attribute.  It 
> typically looks
> like this, which is what I want (one line per arguement):
> 
> <A HREF="javascript:void()" onClick="opendoc(
> escape('Topic One  &#8212;  Maintaining Academic Advisement 
> Setup Data'),
> 'htm/lsaa11.htm#d0e13039',
> escape('Topic Two  &#8212;  Maintaining Academic Advisement 
> Setup Data'),
> 'htm/lsaa11.htm#d0e13066',
> escape('Topic Three  &#8212;  Using the Analysis Database to Create
> Reports'),
> 'htm/lsaa13.htm#d0e15791',
> escape('Topic Four  &#8212;  Using the Analysis Database to Create
> Widgets'),
> 'htm/lsaa13.htm#d0e15816'
> )">Database Tables Report page</A>
> 
> However, if the text inside an escape function is too long, the line
> breaks, like this:
> 
> <A HREF="javascript:void()" onClick="opendoc(
> escape('Topic One  &#8212;  This Is Too Much Text and It Breaks Here
> And Causes Problems'),
> 'htm/lsaa11.htm#d0e13039'
> )">Database Tables Report page</A>
> 
> 
> and I end up with 'unterminated string constant' JavaScript 
> errors in the
> browser.  The limit seems to be about 150 characters on the 
> line before it
> gets broken at the nearest space.
> 
> I can get around this using translate( ) to insert &nbsp; in 
> place of every
> space in each string, but I'd rather not if it's avoidable.
> 
> Any ideas appreciated!
> 
> Mark Fletcher
> PeopleSoft Language Engineering
> 925.694.3753
> mark_fletcher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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