Re: GOTCHA!

["Oren Ben-Kiki" <oren@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>It seems to work just fine to me.  Given:
>
><script>//<xsl:comment>
><![CDATA[
>document.write("<P>Hi <B>Oren</B>!")
>]]>
>//</xsl:comment></script>

>
>XT will output (correctly):
>
><script>//<!--
>
>document.write("<P>Hi <B>Oren</B>!")
>
>//--></script>


As long as you don't write 'i--' in the JavaScript code, of course :-) It
will work now, but will stop when you fix the <xsl:comment> bug.


>> Any reason we have <xsl:comment> and not <xsl:cdata>? Any chance we may
get
>> <xsl:cdata>?
>
>I can't see how it would help you.
>
><xsl:cdata>1 &lt; 2</xsl:cdata>
>
>would produce
>
><![CDATA[1 < 2]]>
>
>which would be treated by XML processors the same as
>
>1 &amp; 2
>
>but would not work in HTML.


I would write:

<script>//<xsl:cdata>
for(i = 10; i >= 0; i--) {
}
//</xsl:cdata></script>

Which would work - and wouldn't using <xsl:comment>. Note that here I _hope_
that "a[b[7]]>3" would be converted by the XSL processor to "a[b[7] ]>3"
which doesn't break the code, unlike changing 'i--' into 'i- -'.

This just leaves the problem of handling quotations inside XSL-generated
JavaScript strings, which neither approach solves.

Share & Enjoy,

    Oren Ben-Kiki


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