Re: javascript, xsl and xml

David,

thankyou for your reply - yes I should have been more specific (probably
due to my lack of knowledge as to how to crack my problem)

The xml I am trying to pass is well formed I believe, something along
the lines of:

 <vs:Table role="out"
xmlns:vs="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VODataService/v0.4"> 
  <vs:Table>sgas_event</vs:Table> 
  <vs:Column> 
   <Name>time_start</Name> 
   <Description>Start time of the solar event.</Description> 
   <vs:DataType arraysize="*">char</vs:DataType> 
  </vs:Column> 
  <vs:Column> 
   <Name>time_peak</Name> 
   <Description>Peak time of the solar event.</Description> 
   <vs:DataType arraysize="*">char</vs:DataType> 
  </vs:Column> 
  <vs:Column> 
   <Name>time_end</Name> 
   <Description>End time of the solar event.</Description> 
   <vs:DataType arraysize="*">char</vs:DataType> 
  </vs:Column>
.................

I then have my function in the stylesheet:

<xsl:element name="img">
  <xsl:attribute    
name="src">/astrogrid-portal/AGRightFrame.gif</xsl:attribute>
   <xsl:attribute name="onclick">backToRightFrameDC('<xsl:value-of
select="@val"/>');
   </xsl:attribute>
</xsl:element>

Onclicking the image to call the function I get

Error: unterminated string literal
Source Code:
backToRightFrameDC('<vodescription><vr:Resource
xmlns:vr="http://www.ivoa.net/xml/VOResource/v0.9"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:type="RegistryType">

with the unterminated string literal occuring at the 1st '<'...

Any further assistance much appreciated so I can have a weekend without
this troubling me! 

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 11:52, David Carlisle wrote:
> 
>   I have a child window and am looking to pass some of the xml within it
>   to it's parent. 
>   The problem is: any '<' '>' or '"' contained within the xml (as there
>   will be) causes the javascript function call to fail.
> 
>   Is there anyway in a stylesheet to pass xml into a function without the
>   contents of the xml causing problems? Do I need to convert every < to
>   &lt; < to &gt; etc - if so is there a quick way to do this?
> 
> you wern't very specifc where your problem was, if
> 
> ypu mean that you have in the xml source unquoted < then the input is
> not well formed (ie, not XML) so will be a fatal error to any XML
> application, not just XSLT.
> 
> You can use &lt; or equivalently put a CDATA section around teh whole
> block as in
> <foo><![CDATA[
>  1 < 2 < 3
> ]]></foo>
> 
> To XSLT that is identical input to
> 
> 
> 
> <foo>
>  1 &lt; 2 7gt; 3
> </foo>
> 
> That's all about the input, but as you said "javascript function call to
> fail". perhaps your problem is in the output.
> 
> If you have some input quoted as above and copy it to a script block
> in the output it will come out as
> 
> <script>
>   1 &lt; 2 &gt; 3
> </script>
> 
> if you are using the xml output method or
> 
> <script>
>  1 < 2 < 3
> </script>
> 
> if you are using the html output method which is teh default if the top
> level output element is html in no-namespace.
> 
> Quoting < and & in script elements is teh correct thing to do in XHTML
> but if you send the file to a browser that doesn't know anything about
> xhtml (like for instance IE) then it will trip over the quoting as
> &lt; does not mean < in an html script element as & is not markup there
> so it literally means the four characters & l t ;.
> 
> If you specify cdata-section-elements="script" in your stylesheet the
> element will probably be output as
> 
> <script><![CDATA[
>  1 < 2 < 3
> ]]></script>
> which is equivalent as XHTML, as HTML it sould just be a syntax error as
> < is not special inside an html <script>  so <![CDATA[ should not start
>  a CDATA section, but you will probably find it works, although I think
>  best is to generate html using the html output method rather than rely
>  on spurious html browser parsing of xhtml files.
> 
> David
> 
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