Re: find and replace in javascript with XMLDOM object

Jeni,

Here's the problem... I am using two different XSL
transformations on the same document... sequentially.
The first one turns XML to HTML, the second one takes
embedded comments in the HTML and displays them. The
comments contain HTML code. 

I have both XSL sheets written, however, when I
display the final output, I get the < > in the
output for the comments. 

The first transformation yields code like this:

<!-- <br /> Copyright Information ... -->

and after the second transformation (which is a simple
"grab the value of the comment":

&lt;br /&gt; Copyright Information

So, I am trying to use the javascript to comb through
the XMLDOM node before throwing it to the browser.

Bryan


--- Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Bryan,
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Is it possible that you're using XSLT to create
> HTML-as-text but using
> the HTML output method rather than either creating
> HTML-as-HTML
> directly or using the text output method? If you
> were creating HTML as
> HTML directly or using the text output method then
> you wouldn't have
> to replace less-than sign entity references (&lt;)
> with less-than
> signs. So perhaps rather than tackling the
> JavaScript problem we could
> have a look at the XSLT that you're using and see if
> we can address
> the problem there?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Jeni
> 
> ---
> Jeni Tennison
> http://www.jenitennison.com/
> 
> 
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