RE: Using XSL for Serialization with Javascript.

Thanks Robert, 

I had actually already considered this option and it is not precisely the
answer I'm hoping for. Clearly you could eval the output string and you
should end up with the required objects. What I'm hoping for is that at the
end of my transform all my objects will be populated.

Perhaps the real question is whether the script (I realize this is an MSXML
only thing) I run in my transformation is aware of the scripting context in
which its run. 

Adam

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2000 6:17 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Using XSL for Serialization with Javascript.
> 
> 
> > Here's an example of what I mean. Lets say that I have a mailinglist
> object
> > that is a collection of contact objects. We might create 
> such a object in
> > Javascript with something like:
> >
> > function setup() {
> > var list = new MailingList();
> > var aContact
> > for(var x = 0; x<20; x++) {
> > aContact = new Contact();
> > aContact.name = "Someone";
> > aContact.email = "someone@xxxxxxxxxxx";
> > list.addContact(aContact);
> > }
> > }
> 
> (Note: I have not tried the code below)
> you could use XSL to write out the javascript object
> 
> the XML:
> <people>
> <person>
>     <name>Someone</name>
>     <email>Someone@xxxxxxxxxxx</email>
> </person>
> 
> <person>
>     <name>Sometwo</name>
>     <email>Sometwo@xxxxxxxxxxx</email>
> </person>
> 
> <person>
>     <name>Somethree</name>
>     <email>Somethree@xxxxxxxxxxx</email>
> </person>
> </people>
> 
> the XSL:
> 
> <xsl:template match="people">
>     &lt;script&gt;
>         var list = new MailingList();
>         var aContact
>         <xsl:apply-templates/>
>         list.addContact(aContact);
>     &lt;/script&gt;
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="person">
>     <xsl:variable name="i" select="position()-1"/>
>     aContact[$i].name = "<xsl:value-of select="name"/>";
>     aContact[$i].email = ""<xsl:value-of select="email"/>";
> </xsl:template>
> 
> the result could look like:
> 
> var list = new MailingList();
> var aContact
> 
> aContact[0].name = "Someone";
> aContact[0].email = "mailto:someone@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> aContact[1].name = "Sometwo";
> aContact[1].email = "mailto:sometwo@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> aContact[2].name = "Somethree";
> aContact[2].email = "mailto:somethree@xxxxxxxxxxx;
> list.addContact(aContact);
> 
> 
> 
> hth
> 
> 
> 
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