RE: [xsl] Javascript looping expression in stylesheet

["Zoe Peng" <zoe at allfools dot net>]

Thank you guys. 
It ends up to use <![CDATA[]]> to make javascript work. 
very strange...It works in CSS, too. 

// those two are produced the same results. =)
<!-- load the css file -->
<xsl:processing-instruction name="xml-stylesheet">
<xsl:text>href="menu.css" type="text/css"</xsl:text>
</xsl:processing-instruction>
 
<!-- load the css file -->
<style type="text/css">
<![CDATA[
        .link
        {
        ...
        }
]]>
</style>


--Zoe

> 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
>

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