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IS JavaScript clashing with XSLT?

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li70

li70

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Mar 24, 2007
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Hi. Everyone
I’m using an xslt stylesheet to transform my xml document to an html doc. This task requires to include some pieces of JavaScript code in the <head> part of the target doc. unfortunately, xslt is unable to parse some of JavaScript signs and operators such as (&& - < - >= - ; and so on). Placing JavaScript code between <![CDATA[ and ]]> tags eliminates this issue but results in losing the functionality of JavaScript code. In addition, using symbols such as &lt instead of < turns us to parsing problem. Furthermore, using back slashes in front of "special" characters leads to parsing problem.
Any suggestions to sort out this issue

Your help is much appreciated
 
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<![CDATA[ and ]]> tags eliminates this issue but results in losing the functionality of JavaScript code
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That shouldn't be true. I put all my javascript code between cdata tags to take it out of validation and I never have a loss of functionality.





[monkey][snake] <.
 
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Thanks monksnake
but in my case it doesn't work. here is my code. could you plz tell what is the roung with my code?
<html>
<head>
<script language="JavaScript">
<![CDATA[
function isvalid(){
var myelements=document.getElementsByTagName("input");
var counter=myelements.length
for (var i=0;i< counter;i++){
var para=myelements.value;
if (myelements.getAttribute("idnull")=='False'){
if (isEmpty(para)){
alert("please fill in the box !"+myelements.name)
return false
}
}
} //for
return true;
} //isvalid

function isEmpty(para){
var fieldname=para;
if (fieldname== null || fieldname == ""){
return true;
}
return false;
} // is Empty
]]>
</script>
</head>
<body>
<h4>
<i> All fields are required. </i>
</h4>
<form name="form1" method="GET" onSubmit="return isvalid()" >
id_card<input type="text" name="id_card" idnull="False"/>
<br/>
address<input type="text" name="address" idnull="False"/>
<br/>
d_of_birth<input type="text" name="d_of_birth" idnull="False"/>
<br/>
<input type="reset" value="Clear All Fields"/>
<input type="submit" VALUE="SUBMIT"/>
</form>
</body>
</html>
 
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I'm sorry I believe I misunderstood your situation.

Could you post a little example of what you are running into? It'll help you get more replies, and I'd like to see what I can do to help.

[monkey][snake] <.
 
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You need to comment out your CDATA statements, otherwise it is unknown to javascript. (Put /* */ around the opening and closing CDATA block.

Like this:

Code: 
/*<![CDATA[*/ 

/*]]>*/



[monkey][snake] <.
 
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Thanks alot monksnake
I got it. well done
cheers
 
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hi.. again
So far so good, but what has derived me crazy is that why at run time the xslt processor weed out the <![DATA and ]]> from the target html document and just keep /**/. This is obvious by browsing the source code in the browser. And what surprise me is that the special JavaScript characters like ( < , > , &&) were converted into (&lt; , &amp;&amp;). As a result JavaScript code was frozen and the validation was escaped.
any clue?

Many thanks in advance
 
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I recommend you post this question here: forum426

This question is more XML than javascript, and I'm not very knowledgable at XSLT.

[monkey][snake] <.
 
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