RE: XSL and javascript

I have done it! I am now a javascript master! :D

Here it is for those interested, thanks for the input Tom, a little javascript
research and I figured out how to do it all in java. To my liking, javascript
supports multiple text inputs with the same name, it doesn't have any problem
recursing the elements array, so I use the gmt offset as the name, and pass the name
to the time calculator, which returns with the correct time and it updates
element[i].value

Then I modified the xsl to spit out the name of the input based on the offset xml
element. I'm so proud of myself :)

        <script language="Javascript1.2">
            <![CDATA[
          function IfZero(num) {
            return ((num <= 9) ? ("0" + num) : num);
          }
          function check24(hour) {
            return (hour >= 24) ? hour - 24 : hour;
          }
          function check60(minutes) {
            return (minutes >= 60) ? minutes - 60 : minutes;
          }
          function GetTime() { 
            var dt = new Date();
            var def = dt.getTimezoneOffset()/60;
            var gmt = (dt.getHours() + def);

            var clockLength = document.clock.length;
            for (i = 0; i < clockLength; i++) {
              var timeZone = document.clock.elements[i].name;
              document.clock.elements[i].value = updateTime(timeZone);
            }
            setTimeout("GetTime()", 1000);
          }
          function updateTime(tz) {
              // We're going to use these offsets:
              var dt = new Date();
              var lhours = dt.getHours();
              var lminutes = dt.getMinutes();
              var lseconds = dt.getSeconds();
              var def = dt.getTimezoneOffset()/60;
              var gmt = (dt.getHours() + def);
              var ending = ":" + IfZero(dt.getMinutes()) + ":" + 
IfZero(dt.getSeconds());
              var altending = ":" + IfZero(check60(dt.getMinutes() + 30)) + ":" +
IfZero(dt.getSeconds());
              
              switch (tz) {
                case "local":
                  return (IfZero(dt.getHours()) + ":" + IfZero(dt.getMinutes()) + ":"
+ IfZero(dt.getSeconds()));
                case "p000":
                  return "timezone0";
                case "p100":
                  var timeRet = check24(gmt + 1);
                  return (IfZero(timeRet) + ending);
                case "p200":
                  var timeRet = check24(gmt + 2);
                  return (IfZero(timeRet) + ending);
                case "p300":

                 [SNIP]

inside the city template:
              <tr>
                <td bgcolor="#ffffff">
                  <xsl:element name="input">
                    <xsl:attribute name="type">text</xsl:attribute>
                    <xsl:attribute name="name"><xsl:value-of select="offsetname"
/></xsl:attribute>
                    <xsl:attribute name="value"></xsl:attribute>
                  </xsl:element>
                </td>
              </tr>

> 
> [ jeff@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > 
> > I found this Javascript code that will show times for 
> > different time zones and update
> > a text input field accordingly, the function GetTime is 
> > called from body onLoad().
> > The code updates the text fields by their names. What I want 
> > to do is have a GMT
> > offset somewhere in the xml, for each of my "city" elements, 
> > and have this function
> > update each text input field, is it possible to do this all 
> > from the XSL stylesheet,
> > and just pass the gmt offset in an xml element? I was 
> > thinking I could change this
> > javascript code to have a for loop that iterates over all the 
> > cities, but then how is
> > it going to know what the GMT offset is? 
> 
> First of all, you want to get clear just what you want to accomplish and
> where it will occur.  In this case, you want some javascript to execute
> when the onLoad event fires.  You just need to modify the javascript in
> onLoad() to correct for GMT.
> 
> Next, think of a way to do it in javascript.  Xslt plays almost no role
> in this process.  I would build a dictionary (or associative array, in
> javascript) of the offsets keyed by the field name, since you say you
> use the field name to set its time.  So create a global javascript
> variable, and modify the javascript that sets the code to pick up the
> offset from the variable:
> 
> var gmt_offsets = {}
> gmt_offsets['New York'] = -5
> gmt_offsets['Chicago'] = -6
> // and so on
> 
> If you know the offsets, you can easily have the stylesheet write this
> variable into the head element.   
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Tom P
> 
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