Re: [xsl] Javascript in XSLT

[Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>]

Joel Konkle-Parker wrote:
> onmouseover="{concat('showMenu('menu', category_name,
> 'Drop')')}"

Wasn't I just getting embarrased about not remembering the use case for this a
couple weeks ago? Declare a variable that, when used as a string, will work
the way you want:

<xsl:variable name="q">'</xsl:variable>

Then stick it in your concat()...

onmouseover="{concat('showMenu(',$q,'menu',category_name,'Drop',$q,')')}"

No need to escape the parentheses, by the way. And you're right, XSLT is XML,
so it gets parsed first. &apos; is no better than a literal ', because by the 
time it gets into XPath/XSLT land, it's an apostrophe either way, and XPath 
doesn't have a mechanism for escaping them. Seems like they could've used 
backslashes.. wonder why they didn't.

   - Mike
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