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RE: Javascript looping expression in stylesheet
- From: "Stuart Celarier" <stuart at ferncrk dot com>
- To: <xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com>
- Date: Wed, 8 May 2002 12:25:52 -0700
- Subject: RE: [xsl] Javascript looping expression in stylesheet
- Reply-to: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
XSLT is XML, and all XML needs to escape certain characters. According
to the XML specification
(http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#syntax), section 2.6,
Character Data and Markup:
The ampersand character (&) and the left angle bracket (<) may appear in
their literal form only when used as markup delimiters, or within a
comment, a processing instruction, or a CDATA section. If they are
needed elsewhere, they must be escaped using either numeric character
references or the strings "& amp ;" and "& lt ;" respectively.
[NOTE: omit the space characters in the quotes - I've added those so
that some email programs don't thing they are HTML and render them as
characters!]
The reason for this is that ampersand and left angle bracket have
special meaning to XML: they indicate escaped characters and the start
of XML tags, respectively. Know your XML.
So if you've only got a few occurrences of these characters, you can use
the & amp ; and & lt ; symbols, or you can place the contents of the
text block in a CDATA section, such as this:
<xsl:text>
<![CDATA[My funky text that uses < and & all the time...]]>
</xsl:text>
Cheers,
Stuart
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
[mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of Zoe Peng
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:22
To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
Subject: [xsl] Javascript looping expression in stylesheet
Hi,
I am going to include a javascript inside the stylesheet. It works in
some javascripts. But, it fails when I try to use for function.
some charactures can't escape such as for (var i = 1; i <= nom; i++) {}
It fails in = sign or & sign. any ideas? Thanks.
--Zoe
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