RE: [xsl] Pop-up window

Subject: RE: [xsl] Pop-up window
From: "Chris Bayes" <chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 01:01:39 +0100
Jenny,
Have a look at the beer tutorials
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml/index.xml?/xml/tutorial/filtering/filter.xml
for a different way of doing this. If you are doing it serverside then
change your link to be something like
href="www.someplace.com/gimmeonebibitem.asp?id=someid" which would
return a single bibitem and an associated stylesheet
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" title="bibitemStylesheet"
href="bibitem.xsl" alternate="no" media="screen"?>
<bibitem type="inproceedings">
     <author URL="http://www.cs.utah.edu/~whitaker/";>R.
Whitaker</author>
     <booktitle>Fifth
 ...

Or do the transform o the server and return the html.

Ciao Chris

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


> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of 
> Jenny Simpson
> Sent: 31 August 2001 23:54
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [xsl] Pop-up window
> 
> 
> Hi all,
> 	My problem is fairly straight-forward.  I have a 
> bibliography database in xml that is displayed as a list of 
> publications using xsl.  "Abstract" is one of the fields 
> contained in each entry.  Here is a sample entry:
> 
> <bibitem type="inproceedings">
>     <author URL="http://www.cs.utah.edu/~whitaker/";>R. 
> Whitaker</author>
>     <booktitle>Fifth
> International Conference on Computer Vision '95</booktitle>
>     <keywords>Deformable Models</keywords>    
>     <month>June</month>
>     <note>(full paper, peer review)</note>
>     <pages>822--827</pages>
>     <title>Algorithms for implicit deformable models</title>
>     <year>1995</year>
>     <abstract>&lt;p&gt;This paper presents a framework for 
> implicit deformable models and a pair of new algorithms for 
> solving the nonlinear partial differential equations that 
> result from this framework. Implicit models offer a useful 
> alternative to parametric models, particularly when dealing 
> with the deformation of higher-dimensional objects. The basic 
> expressions for the evolution of implicit models are 
> relatively straightforward; they follow as a direct 
> consequence of the chain rule for differentiation. More 
> challenging, however, is the development of algorithms that 
> are stable and efficient. 
> 
> &lt;p&gt;The first algorithm is a viscosity approximation 
> which gives solutions over a dense set in the range, 
> providing a means of calculating the solutions of embedded 
> families of contours simultaneously. The second algorithm 
> incorporates sparse solutions for a discrete set of contours. 
> This sparse-field method requires a fraction of the 
> computation compared to the first but offers solutions only 
> for a finite number of contours. Results from 3d medical data 
> as well as video images are shown. 
>     </abstract>
> </bibitem>
> 
> I have the abstract displayed as a link and I want the user 
> to be able to click on the abstract for any publication and 
> see a pop-up window containing the abstract and other related 
> information.
> 
> The problem with using a regular javasript pop-up window is 
> that I don't want to refer to a different URL; I want to 
> display the current values in the current node and I would 
> lose that information if I referred to a new URL.  The option 
> that seems best is the pass the current element values as 
> parameters to a javascript function, then build the content 
> for the pop-up window in the javascript itself.  The 
> javascript looks like
> this:
> 
> 
> function subWrite(thisAbstract, author, month, year, title, 
> journal, editor, volume, number, pages, publisher){
>   makeNewWindow();
>   newWindow.focus();
>   var newContent = "<html><head><title>Abstract</title></head>";
>   newContent += "<body><h1>Abstract</h1>";
>   newContent += thisAbstract;   
>   newContent += "</body></html>";
>   newWindow.document.write(newContent);
>   newWindow.document.close();
> }    
> 
> 
> The function call in the xsl looks like this:
> 
> <a href="javascript:subWrite('{$thisAbstract}', '{$author}', 
> '{$month}', '{$year}', '{$title}', '{$journal}', '{$editor}', 
> '{$volume}', '{$number}', '{$pages}', '{$publisher}')">Abstract</a>
> 
> 
> This works fine as long as there are no single or double 
> quotes in the variables being passes as parameters.  In other 
> words, if the abstract contains a quotation mark somewhere 
> (and many do), the xsl interprets the quote as if it is the 
> end of the function call instead of just ignoring it as part 
> of the text. 
> 
> Is there a way to pass xsl element values (values which 
> change depending 
> on context) to a javascript function without having the xsl 
> try to parse the values in the process?  
> 
> Also, is there a better way to create a pop-up window to 
> display values from current nodes in xsl?  I hope this made 
> sense.  Thanks in advance.  
> 
> Jenny Simpson
> Sci Institute  
> 
> 
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