RE: How to get xml-entities into Javascript strings?

[Koen Pellegrims]

Maybe my post wasn't very clear; the XML contains ë but JavaScript
expects \U00EB (which is 235 in hex).
Instead of reinventing the wheel, I was hoping there would be some standard
way to convert from one into the other.

K.

> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
> Van: Robert Koberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Verzonden: maandag 26 augustus 2002 17:10
> Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Onderwerp: RE: How to get xml-entities into Javascript strings?
>
>
> Hi,
>
> You almost have it. But with XSLT you have to watch out for
> whitespace. There
> are two ways to handle it:
>
> 1. Use xsl:text
> <xsl:text>alert('</xsl:text>
> <xsl:value-of select="@name"/>
> <xsl:text>');</xsl:text>
>
> 2. alert('<xsl:value-of select="normalize-space(@name)"/>');
>
> best,
> -Rob
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Koen Pellegrims [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>
> > Hi,
> >
> > (Not specifically cocoon-related, flame me if you want to...)
> >
> > I ran into some trouble trying to generate a snippet of
> JavaScript from an
> > XML-file, containing entity-references.
> > The problem can be reduced to this:
> >
> > XML-file:
> > <product name="industri&#235;le merkers"/>
> > &#235; is &euml; in HTML, or ë... if you can see this ;-)
> >
> > XSL:
> > <xsl:template match="product">
> >     <script type="text/javascript">
> >             alert('<xsl:value-of select="@name"/>');
> >     </script>
> > </xsl:template>
> >
> > I'm not that strong in JavaScript, but I know JS expects Unicode-type
> > encodings of the form \Uxxxx.
> > Is there a standard way to convert XML entities into JavaScript
> entities or
> > is there a cunningly simple solution to this problem?
> >
> > Koen
> > >
>
>
>
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