When you validate the rule in the editor, the error message will say
"SyntaxError: missing ; before statement," and the exact point where the
error occurred will be highlighted in the editor. In this case, the
selection will be right on the capital P at the beginning of "PANTONE
143". In addition, if you're using the syntax highlighting editor in
FusionPro 4.2 or later, you should see that that text is not highlighted
as a string. These are important clues.
The problem is that the double-quote character (") delimits literal
strings, so if you have a double-quote character inside of a string,
such as when you have an attribute with spaces inside a tag, you need to
escape the double-quotes so that the JavaScript interpreter knows that
they're actually a part of the string, rather than delimiters. There
are two ways to do this:
1. Use a backslash (\) escape inside the string literal:
"<color name=\"PANTONE 143\"> • </color> fax: "
2. Use single-quotes (') to delimit the string literal:
'<color name="PANTONE 143"> • </color> fax: '
In the first case, the backslash is an escape, which tells JavaScript
that the next character is a "special character."
<http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Core_JavaScript_1.5_Guide:Literals
#Using_Special_Characters_in_Strings>
In the second case, you're delimiting the string literal with
single-quotes instead of double-quotes. JavaScript treats both kinds of
string literals the same way, except that "unescaped" double-quotes are
allowed in a string literal delimited with single-quotes, and
vice-versa.
Dan
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