Re: Using XSL for Serialization with Javascript.

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

> Here's an example of what I mean. Lets say that I have a mailinglist
object
> that is a collection of contact objects. We might create such a object in
> Javascript with something like:
>
> function setup() {
> var list = new MailingList();
> var aContact
> for(var x = 0; x<20; x++) {
> aContact = new Contact();
> aContact.name = "Someone";
> aContact.email = "someone@xxxxxxxxxxx";
> list.addContact(aContact);
> }
> }

(Note: I have not tried the code below)
you could use XSL to write out the javascript object

the XML:
<people>
<person>
    <name>Someone</name>
    <email>Someone@xxxxxxxxxxx</email>
</person>

<person>
    <name>Sometwo</name>
    <email>Sometwo@xxxxxxxxxxx</email>
</person>

<person>
    <name>Somethree</name>
    <email>Somethree@xxxxxxxxxxx</email>
</person>
</people>

the XSL:

<xsl:template match="people">
    &lt;script&gt;
        var list = new MailingList();
        var aContact
        <xsl:apply-templates/>
        list.addContact(aContact);
    &lt;/script&gt;
</xsl:template>

<xsl:template match="person">
    <xsl:variable name="i" select="position()-1"/>
    aContact[$i].name = "<xsl:value-of select="name"/>";
    aContact[$i].email = ""<xsl:value-of select="email"/>";
</xsl:template>

the result could look like:

var list = new MailingList();
var aContact

aContact[0].name = "Someone";
aContact[0].email = "mailto:someone@xxxxxxxxxxx;
aContact[1].name = "Sometwo";
aContact[1].email = "mailto:sometwo@xxxxxxxxxxx;
aContact[2].name = "Somethree";
aContact[2].email = "mailto:somethree@xxxxxxxxxxx;
list.addContact(aContact);



hth



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