How to add " " inside a method({ })

and · July 11th, 2008, 03:53 AM

Hello,

I want to insert " " to the . which have the text i am interested in.
copyToClipboard is a javascript.

Code:

<xsl:template match="xxx">
  <input type="button" VALUE="Copy to clipboard" onClick="copyToClipboard({.})"></input>

What I get with this code is for example, Text to be copied
but this isn't a string so it don't get copied to the clipboard

What i want is something like this:

Code:

<xsl:template match="xxx">
  <input type="button" VALUE="Copy to clipboard" onClick="copyToClipboard({"."[u]</u>})"></input>

So i get, "Text to be copied"

mhkay · July 11th, 2008, 04:07 AM

Try

onClick='copyToClipboard("{.}")'

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

and · July 11th, 2008, 04:21 AM

Thanks for the answer.

I get a strange output in the HTML document after I tried your solution.

Code:

 <input type="button" VALUE="Copy to clipboard" onClick="copyToClipboard(&quot;Text to be copied&quot;)">

samjudson · July 11th, 2008, 04:30 AM

Try using single quotes instead then onclick="copyToClipboard('{.}')"

/- Sam Judson : Wrox Technical Editor -/

mhkay · July 11th, 2008, 04:40 AM

Unfortunately " ought to be OK here, but Javascript can be a bit fussy. It's safest to keep the Javascript that you generate in HTML attributes extremely simple, which might sometimes mean generating a call to a function that actually appears in your <script> section. Some serializers are better than others at coping with the foibles of Javascript.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

and · July 11th, 2008, 09:15 AM

Hello and thanks again,
The single quotes didn't work so I thought of changing in the JavaScript but that didn't work the way I did it.
Any idea how to correct it?
I added the second row:

Code:

copyToClipboard = function(txt) {
    var txtcor = txt.toString();

The error Firefox 3 gave me in the error console:

Code:

Error: illegal character
Source File: file:///xxx.htm
Line: 2, Column: 8
Source Code:
        #include xxx

And the error console had an arrow pointing after the #
#include xxx is what I previously have called Text to be copied

joefawcett · July 11th, 2008, 09:21 AM

No closing brace on the function body. Although if the single quote solution isn't working then either the text has quote marks in it or there's something else wrong in the code.

--

Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

and · July 14th, 2008, 03:27 AM

Thanks again for the answers.
Your solutions worked but I have found a new error, but don't know how to correct it.
The problem is that it only works on one row like this.

Code:

<input type="button" VALUE="Copy to clipboard" onClick='copyToClipboard("Text to be copied")'></input>

But not on two or more rows like this:

Code:

<input type="button" VALUE="Copy to clipboard" onClick='copyToClipboard("Text to 
be copied")'></input>

The error I get is:

Code:

Error: unterminated string literal
Source File: file:///xxx.htm
Source Code:
copyToClipboard("Text to

Edited: Figured out JavaScript can't have Strings with line breaks.