Hi Rob,

Where in the example below would you insert the comment?

Thanks,

Tim

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:31 AM
To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] embedded javascript problem
converting<to &lt; even though I'm using a CDATA section


On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:26 AM, Eric Palmitesta wrote:

> Interesting!  Can you explain how/why that works?

It is just a javascript comment that keeps the element from closing :)


>
>
> Eric
>
> Robert Koberg wrote:
>> On Jan 30, 2009, at 11:16 AM, Tim Meagher wrote:
>>> I reckon using a separate .js file is the way to go - I especially
>>> appreciate the {' '} hint.
>> You could do away with ML processing for this type of thing if you  
>> just used:
>> <script>//</script>
>> best,
>> -Rob
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Tim
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: [email protected]
>>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric
>>> Palmitesta
>>> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 11:12 AM
>>> To: General Mark Logic Developer Discussion
>>> Subject: Re: [MarkLogic Dev General] embedded javascript problem  
>>> converting<
>>> to &lt; even though I'm using a CDATA section
>>>
>>> I ran into similar problems with in-script and in-line javascript in
>>> xquery pages, but all problems were mitigated by relocating all JS  
>>> code
>>> to *.js files and referencing them via <script type="text/ 
>>> javascript"
>>> src="file.js">{' '}</script>, leaving only simple JS function  
>>> calls in
>>> my xquery code.
>>>
>>> The {' '} is there between the script tags to prevent marklogic from
>>> collapsing them into <script ... />.
>>>
>>> Eric
>>>
>>> Tim Meagher wrote:
>>>> I have trying to embed some javascript in an xquery file and am  
>>>> enclosing
>>>> the script in a CDATA section, but when the page renders, the  
>>>> less than
>>>> operator
>>>>
>>>>    <
>>>>
>>>> is getting converted to
>>>>
>>>>    &lt;
>>>>
>>>> which renders the javascript useless.  Here's the javascript code  
>>>> (note
>>> the
>>>> less than comparator used in for loop of the clearForm function)  
>>>> embedded
>>> in
>>>> the head element:
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> <head><title>blah blah blah</title>
>>>>   <script type="text/javascript">
>>>>       <![CDATA[
>>>>       var foo = function() { alert('test') };
>>>>
>>>>       function clearForm(oForm) {
>>>>           var elements = oForm.elements;
>>>>           oForm.reset();
>>>>           for(i=0; i<elements.length; i++) {
>>>>               field_type = elements[i].type.toLowerCase();
>>>>               switch(field_type) {
>>>>                   case "text":
>>>>                   case "password":
>>>>                   case "textarea":
>>>>                   case "hidden":
>>>>                       elements[i].value = "";
>>>>                       break;
>>>>                   case "radio":
>>>>                   case "checkbox":
>>>>                       if (elements[i].checked) {
>>>>                           elements[i].checked = false;
>>>>                       }
>>>>                       break;
>>>>                   case "select-one":
>>>>                   case "select-multi":
>>>>                       elements[i].selectedIndex = -1;
>>>>                       break;
>>>>                   default:
>>>>                       break;
>>>>               }
>>>>           }
>>>>       }
>>>>       ]]>
>>>>   </script>
>>>> </head>
>>>>
>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------
>>>>
>>>> - Tim
>>>>
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