RE: xslt, script, attribute as parameter

Phil,
I knew I'd seen this question somewhere.
It's a strange error. It should be object doesn't support this property or
method.
Here is a little .js test i knocked up. Paste it into test.js and the xml to
test.xml and doubleclick test.js

var x = new ActiveXObject("Microsoft.XMLDOM");
x.async = false
x.validateOnParse = false;
x.setProperty("SelectionLanguage", "XPath");
x.load("test.xml");
var a = x.selectSingleNode("/person/name/@att");
WScript.echo(HiDude(a));

function HiDude(_attrVal)		{
	var strOut 	= _attrVal.nodeValue;
	return strOut.indexOf( "b", 0 );
}

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<person>
    <name att="joe bloggs"></name>
</person>

When you get it how you want it paste the function into your stylesheet.
You don't need a new String everything is a variant. Stop thinking java.

Ciao Chris

XML/XSL Portal
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml

>> hi,
>>
>> I am using xslt and msxsl script extension with msxml3.
>> My problem is that I can not access and attribute value as a Jscript
>> String in my script.
>>
>> eg :
>> the script :
>> 	 <![CDATA[
>> 	function HiDude(_attrVal)		{
>> 		var strOut 	= new String (_attrVal);
>>
>> 		strOut.indexOf ( "b", 0 );
>> 		return "done";
>> 	}
>> 	....
>> 	]]>
>>
>> the xsl code :
>> 	<xsl:value-of select="scriptsNS:HiDude(@attr)"/>
>>
>> the error in IE
>> Microsoft JScript runtime error Wrong number of arguments or invalid
>> property assignment line ...
>> Why can't cast the value of an attribute to a String ?
>>
>> any idea,
>> TIA,Philippe


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