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XSL transformations with Javascript
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- Subject: [xsl] XSL transformations with Javascript
- From: "Hasselback, Matt" <matt dot hasselback at clevermethod dot com>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jun 2001 11:07:01 -0400
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Hello ALL,
This question is in three parts, fairly unrelated ... all fall under the
but I figured to ask them in one message to not annoy those of you, with
a second message... !
I apologize, its rather difficult to explain these scenarios clearly,
hopefully the basics are there, and someone with experience in the
matter already will pickup on it!
1.) I try to display status messages while I am doing transformations,
etc...
For example...
If I run the following script, the "LOADING..." never gets
displayed...
resultDIV.innerHTML = '<TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" BORDER="0"
HEIGHT="100%"><TR><TD>LOADING...</TD></TR></TABLE>';
resultDIV.innerHTML = data.transformNode(ss.XMLDocument);
If I place an alert in between these statements, I can see that it
does change, but just before the transformation replaces it with the
transformNode()
Ultimately I learned that I could call the second statement with a
settimeout() and that would achieve the desired results. I feel like
this is a bit of a hack, and was hoping someone could explain this in
greater detail, or even explain why! Does JavaScript run
asynchronously?
2.) Next I decide to replace the boring text with an animated GIF! I
replaced the first line to be:
resultDIV.innerHTML = '<TABLE ALIGN="CENTER" BORDER="0"
HEIGHT="100%"><TR><TD><IMG
SRC="images/load_data.gif"></TD></TR></TABLE>';
Problem: the GIF isn't animated. If I display the graphic on any
page in the <HTML> I have no problems, and the graphic is animated...
but for some reason, if I set the innerHTML of the div, with the
graphic, it remains at the first layer/frame of the .GIF.
Any ideas on how to make my GIF animated again?
3.) If I place a <script>alert('something here')</script> in my
stylesheet, perform a transformation, the script never gets executed...
is it possible to do this?
Thanks for any of your time, help or information!!!
-Matt
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