Re: [xsl] HTML <script> tag

[Jeni Tennison <jeni at jenitennison dot com>]

Hi Stuart,

> I am including the following line in an XSLT template:
>
> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="viewSource.js">
> </script>
>
> I use the latest Xalan for Java and the problem is that since the
> text node of the element is empty, the XSLT engine generates the
> following:
>
> <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript" src="viewSource.js" />
>
> Well that is fine but for some bizarre reason neither the latest
> version of IE nor Mozilla recognize this HTML and, worse, it causes
> the whole page to render blank!

For what it's worth, when I have the same problem when creating
*XHTML* (when I don't want to use the 'html' output method), I create
a comment inside the script element so that it has some content, and
this seems to work. In the XSLT:

  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"
          src="viewSource.js">
    <xsl:comment>Comment added so script is recognised</xsl:comment>
  </script>

which comes out as:

  <script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript"
          src="viewSource.js">
    <!--Comment added so script is recognised-->
  </script>

and seems to work.

Cheers,

Jeni

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