Re: [xsl] xsl:apply-templates in javascript

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brandon,

At 10:07 PM 5/25/2005, you wrote:
> That sounds interesting, but I'm not sure what you mean by a "whole 
> branch" in XSLT.

Yes ... but I was just thinking aloud ... that in principle, there's 
nothing preventing you from applying templates in the normal way and 
letting your regular serializer write it out ... though this would be (as I 
also remarked) a bad idea if only because getting it to work in one tool 
would be no guarantee it would work in another (due to the range of 
possible behaviors in the serializer).

> I've tried the disable-output-escaping, and that only works if your 
> template escapes the tags in the first place, ie <.  I understand this 
> is a horrible misuse of XSL and it's a shame to do it, but I'd like not to 
> load all these images when the page loads, and only load them on 
> demand.  The document.write() mechanizm is the only way I know how to do 
> it so far.

Look into Javascript support for the DOM ... that's the direction I would 
recommend. Ideally you should be able to add nodes to the document tree 
that perform your fetching, rather than writing it in as HTML to be parsed. 
This would be much easier to handle from the XSLT layer. The tag-writing 
approach crosses the line from building an output document to, in effect, 
literate programming (or logic-driven code-writing, if you like) -- while 
still using the HTML serializer. Ick.

Good luck,
Wendell


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