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Ian Banks 24 posts 44 karma points

Jan 05, 2011 @ 15:06

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Illegal xslt characters

XSLT

Hi

This is really simple but I am having trouble with some xslt javascript encoding, I have the following code

<script>
        function removeSpaces(string) {
            var tstring = "";
            string = '' + string;
            splitstring = string.split(" ");
            for(i = 0; i > splitstring.length; i++)
            tstring += splitstring[i];
            return tstring;
}
var csv = removeSpaces("Win a Supersize Allotment Collection");
document.write("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"fileLocation\" value=\"/var/websites/gw/csv/comp_" + csv + ".csv\" />");

I am getting the following errors

System.Xml.XmlException: '\' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '"' or '''. Line 47, position 29.
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(Exception e)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Throw(String res, String[] args)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ThrowUnexpectedToken(String expectedToken1, String expectedToken2)
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseAttributes()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElement()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.ParseElementContent()
at System.Xml.XmlTextReaderImpl.Read()
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltInput.ReadNextSiblingHelper()
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltInput.ReadNextSibling()
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltInput.MoveToFirstChildAny()
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltInput.MoveToFirstChild()
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadInstructions(List`1 content, InstructionFlags flags)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadLiteralResultElement(Boolean asStylesheet)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadInstructions(List`1 content, InstructionFlags flags)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadLiteralResultElement(Boolean asStylesheet)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadInstructions(List`1 content, InstructionFlags flags)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadTemplate(NsDecl stylesheetNsList)
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadRealStylesheet()
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadDocument()
at System.Xml.Xsl.Xslt.XsltLoader.LoadStylesheet(XmlReader reader, Boolean include)

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Lee Kelleher 4020 posts 15802 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Jan 05, 2011 @ 15:49
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Hi Ian,

The error is to do with the HTML <input> tag in your JavaScript. The XSLT processor sees an opening bracket - then reads the backslash and throws an error (because that's illegal XML syntax!)

If you aren't using any XSL tags in your JavaScript block, then I'd advise you to wrap it in an <xsl:text> tag:
```
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function removeSpaces(string) {
            ...
        }
    </script>
]]></xsl:text>
```
Cheers, Lee.
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Ian Banks 24 posts 44 karma points

Jan 05, 2011 @ 16:05

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Thanks but I will probably need to use xsl tags in within the script block.

Thanks

Ian Banks

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Lee Kelleher 4020 posts 15802 karma points MVP 13x admin c-trib

Jan 05, 2011 @ 16:10

Hi Ian,

One way is to exit out of the <xsl:text> block, like this:

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function removeSpaces(string) {
            ...
            var foo = ']]></xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$currentPage/@nodeName" />
<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[';
            ...
        }
    </script>
]]></xsl:text>

... it's not the prettiest code - but it will render out correctly.

Cheers, Lee.

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Ian Banks 24 posts 44 karma points

Jan 05, 2011 @ 17:29

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Ok thanks will give that a try

Thanks

Ian Banks

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