[xquery-talk] Getting a bare & and > into HTML for Javascript

Wed Jul 20 09:01:46 PDT 2011

Thanks, I will try this.
I am using html tag but in the xhtml namespace ...

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

But in the script tag its obviously not expanding the &

I will try the CDATA trick.

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David A. Lee
dlee at calldei.com
http://www.xmlsh.org

-----Original Message-----
From: Ghislain Fourny [mailto:gfourny at inf.ethz.ch] 
Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2011 11:58 AM
To: David Lee
Cc: <talk at x-query.com>
Subject: Re: [xquery-talk] Getting a bare & and > into HTML for Javascript

Hi David,

I am assuming you are using HTML, not XHTML, since if I am correct, XHTML
would recognize the & entity reference. In HTML, entity references in
the script tag are not parsed. In XHTML they are.

I guess a possibility could be to use a CDATA section that is ignored by
JavaScript, like so (in your XQuery code):

<script type="text/javascript">
// <cdata-section><![CDATA[
(: code generation here :)
// ]]></cdata-section>
</script>

and to tell the XQuery engine to serialize the contents of the element
<cdata-section/> using a CDATA section, using the cdata-section-elements XML
output method:

http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-xquery-serialization/#XML_CDATA-SECTION-ELEMENTS

That way, JavaScript would see the intended code - you need to make sure
that ]]> does not appear in your JavaScript code though, otherwise there
will be extra CDATA tags that the browser will not understand.

Does this help?

Kind regards,
Ghislain