Very new to xslt . We have one xsl sheet that handles processing of many different xml documents into html. We'd like to include custom javascript on the html rendered output. Since there is only one xslt, the xml source has a CDATA section where the custom javascripts are included.

<my xml>
<![CDATA[<script>alert('this does not alert when the page is rendered even though it is in the html source')</script>]]>

<morexml />
</my xml>

The scripts are being rendered out and we can view them in the html source, but they don't appear to work.

Is this even possible?
Thanks in advance

Why the CDATA? CDATA means "the stuff in here is not markup, even if it looks like markup". So the HTML output is going to contain &lt;script&gt; rather than <script>, which means the browser will not recognize it. The CDATA appears to achieve nothing here other than to deactivate the script element.

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

Apologies...looks like I typo'd.. it actually looks like this:
<my xml>
<script><![CDATA[<alert('this does not alert when the page is rendered even though it is in the html source')]]></script>

<morexml />
</my xml>

The xslt looks for //script and outputs this in the html.

<script language="javascript">
alert('this does not alert when the page is rendered even though it is in the html source');
</script>
it never actually fires though.

It looks like you have an HTML problem rather than an XSLT problem.

Create an HTML page by hand that has the effect you want; then try to write XSLT code to generate the equivalent HTML.

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

Delete the < character present before the word "alert" in the below script.

<script><![CDATA[<alert('this does not alert when the page is rendered even though it is in the html source')]]></script>

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