Passing XSL String to Javascript

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I'm trying to pass a string from XSL to Javascript. I was able to pass integers but it doesn't seem to accept strings. The following is the basic structure of my code. If I delete "Test" from "Test 1" I do get the alertbox with the number 1. But once there's text inside, the alertbox does not come up.

XML:

<TEST>
  <TITLE>Test 1</TITLE>
<TEST>

<TEST>
  <TITLE>Test 2</TITLE>
<TEST>

XSL:

<xsl:for-each select="//TEST">
<xsl:call-template name="TEST_TEMPLATE"/>
</xsl:for-each>

...

<xsl:template name="TEST_TEMPLATE">

<script type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[var title = ]]><xsl:value-of select="./TITLE" /><![CDATA[;

alert(title);]]>
</script>

Your help is much appreciated.

Thanks!

Michael Kay · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-24 22:19:57Z

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You are not "passing a string from XSL to Javascript". Your XSLT code is generating HTML, part of which happens to be a script element. It is easy to see that the script element you are generating contains the text:

var title = Test 1;

which will obviously not do anything useful when it comes to be executed.

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 22:19

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AHM · Accepted Answer · 2012-04-24 20:09:59Z

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You need qoutes around the title. The template you have just outputs the value of the string, but it has to be in qoutes to be valid javascript. I think this would work:

<xsl:template name="TEST_TEMPLATE">

<script type="text/javascript">
<![CDATA[var title = "]]><xsl:value-of select="./TITLE" /><![CDATA[";

alert(title);]]>
</script>

answered Apr 24, 2012 at 20:09

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