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portalguy123

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Sep 19, 2006
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Hello Experts,

I am working on an AJAX application and I get a response back from the url which populates a div which has both HTML as well as JavaScript code , I need to extract the javascript from the response and set in the parent documnet's head tag so as to be able to acees the javascript in a global context.I use the following code to do so ,

Code:
extractAndProcess = function(windowObj,n){

    var re = /<script[\s\S]*?>([\s\S]*?)<\/scr/igm;
    var result = '';
    var match; 
    while (match = re.exec(responseString)) { 
     //document.write(match[1]);
     //eval(match[1]);
     result += match[1]; 
     //alert ('The match is '+match[1]);
   }
   
   alert('The result is '+result);
    
   var head = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];
   script = document.createElement('script');
   script.id = 'uploadScript';
   script.type = 'text/javascript';
   [b]script.src = result;[/b]
   head.appendChild(script);
   
   alert('The set script is '+   document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].value);
   populateEmailids(windowObj,n);
}

But when I print the value of teh head element I get a null back , can you please let me know where I might be wrong.

Thanks in Advance!!

-Bob F.
 
Hello Lee,

Thanks for the reply!Are you asking what the top of teh HTML looks after the head element is appended with a script element? I think the problem Iam facing is that the script element has a src attribute which can only point to a URL ,but in my case I have the script in a variable , and thats where I am stuck at, to have the dynamically created script element have this javascript in the variable as its content.I believe you cant use innerText and innerHTML for the script tag , is there any other way around..
 
Though its a AJAX scenario, its a general javascript issue, I wouldnt think it to be AJAX specific..
 
It's your word, not mine. Why then you cross post to there?
 
Hmm - hang on - what happens if you print the value of the head element BEFORE you try to append? If it's null, the append will never work.

You must be able to get a reference to the head element to be able to append to it.

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Hello Dan,

Thanks for the reply, I able to print the innerHTML of the head before appending the script element to teh head element.

I have tried multiple scenarios, all of them fail.Before I mention them , just to let you know the JS is in a string not in a file or filename.

Case 1: Try to append the head.innerHTML with <script>'js string' </script> --doesnt work get an error saying "Could not set the innerHTML property. Invalid target element for this operation".

Case 2: Try to create a script element and append it to the head element, I couldnt figure out a way to have the script in the string made part of the script element, script.src can only point to a url, script.innerText and script.innerHTML cant be used either they give out errors as well, I am using IE and the head element is not null as I am able to print the innerHTML of it.
 
Now that it seems I cant have the script element populated with the script code in the string var , I have chnaged my approach to extract the java script and evaluate it , I get an error for the following regexp , can anyone please let me know what might be wrong with this RegExp.

Thanks in Adnavce!
Code:
var re2 = /\/\/ **** This section[\s\S]*?****([\s\S]*?)-->/igm;
 
I don't think you can have multiple * in a row. An * in regexp says match 0 or more instances of the preceding character, so it doesn't make any sense to have more than 1 in a row. If you meant it to match the literal character * then you must first escape it with a backslash (\)

-kaht

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I am trying to extract the java script in the following text...

Code:
// **** This section contains code that will run when the page is loaded ****


// Build the netui_names table to map the tagId attributes
// to the real id written into the HTML
if (netui_names == null)
   var netui_names = new Object();
netui_names.fname0="fname0"
netui_names.email0="email0"
netui_names.lname0="lname0"
netui_names.box0="wlw-checkbox_key:{request.results[0].checked}"
netui_names.mi0="mi0"

-->
 
I am hiting one roadblock after another after evaluating the script extracted in the above post , I dotn see the values in the netui_names object.I am using the following code to extract the scipt from the above example and evaluating them as follows but I dotn see the values in netui_names object..

Code:
var re2 = /\/\/ \*\*\*\* This section[\s\S]*?\*\*\*\*([\s\S]*?)-->/igm;
   var result2 = '';
   var match2 = '';
   while (match2 = re2.exec(result)) { 
      result2 += match2[1]; 
     
   }
   alert('The result2 is '+result2);
   eval(result2);

Can any body please let me know why I cant see the effect of eval on the netui_names object ..

FYI the result2 has the following script stored in it..

Code:
// Build the netui_names table to map the tagId attributes
// to the real id written into the HTML
if (netui_names == null)
   var netui_names = new Object();
netui_names.fname0="fname0"
netui_names.email0="email0"
netui_names.lname0="lname0"
netui_names.box0="wlw-checkbox_key:{request.results[0].checked}"
netui_names.mi0="mi0"

Is it becuase it has comments in the beginning...
 
Ok it seems that the problems is that the following code is not being evaluated ...

var result2 has the following value;and eval(result2) has not effect , can anyone shed some light on this aspect of the problem..

Thanks.

result2=
Code:
 // Build the netui_names table to map the tagId attributes
// to the real id written into the HTML
if (netui_names == null)
   var netui_names = new Object();
netui_names.fname0="fname0"
netui_names.email0="email0"
netui_names.lname0="lname0"
netui_names.box0="wlw-checkbox_key:{request.results[0].checked}"
netui_names.mi0="mi0"

-Bob.
 
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