Re: Javascript not parsing

"Howard M. Lewis Ship" <[email protected]> Sun, 15 Dec 2002 13:11:43 -0500
Newsgroups	gmane.comp.java.tapestry.devel
Message-ID	<043d01c2a465$6cf54260$3dc41e42@howardczkz2sl3>
Your script probably contains '<', '&' or '>'.  Either put things inside a
<![CDATA[  ... ]]> block, or convert occurances of '<' to &lt;, etc.

----- Original Message -----
From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected].>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 8:16 PM
Subject: [Tapestry-developer] Javascript not parsing


> Hi -
>
> I have a HiddenSelectQuestion component that contains a set of hidden
> elements.  I want a javascript function that sets the value of the named
> element.  I have debugged this as straight HTML to make sure the
Javascript is
> valid.  However, Tapestry gives a parse error.
>
> The script is at the bottom of the email.  The Tapestry parser does not
seem
> to like the '<' in the while statement and gives the following
exception...
>
>    net.sf.tapestry.ApplicationRuntimeException
>    Unable to parse script
>        /com/informative/study/jwc/HiddenSelectQuestion.script.
>
>    net.sf.tapestry.util.xml.DocumentParseException
>    Unable to parse /com/informative/study/jwc/HiddenSelectQuestion.script:
>    The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data
>    or markup.
>    column: 19
>    lineNumber: 34
>    resourcePath: /com/informative/study/jwc/HiddenSelectQuestion.script
>
>    org.xml.sax.SAXParseException
>    The content of elements must consist of well-formed character data
>    or markup.
>    columnNumber: 19
>    lineNumber: 34
>    Stack Trace:
>    org.apache.xerces.parsers.DOMParser.parse(DOMParser.java:235)
>    org.apache.xerces.jaxp.DocumentBuilderImpl.parse
>      (DocumentBuilderImpl.java:201)
>    net.sf.tapestry.util.xml.AbstractDocumentParser.parse
>      (AbstractDocumentParser.java:199)
>    net.sf.tapestry.script.ScriptParser.parse(ScriptParser.java:132)
>    net.sf.tapestry.engine.DefaultScriptSource.parse
>      (DefaultScriptSource.java:110)
>    net.sf.tapestry.engine.DefaultScriptSource.getScript
>      (DefaultScriptSource.java:82)
>    com.informative.study.jwc.HiddenSelectQuestion.getParsedScript
>      (HiddenSelectQuestion.java:213)
>    com.informative.study.jwc.HiddenSelectQuestion.writeScript
>      (HiddenSelectQuestion.java:203)
>    com.informative.study.jwc.HiddenSelectQuestion.renderComponent
>      (HiddenSelectQuestion.java:164)
>    net.sf.tapestry.AbstractComponent.render(AbstractComponent.java:901)
>
> I am using Tapestry 2.2 in JBoss 3.2 Beta 2.  Any pointers or suggestions
> would be greatly appreciated!  Thanks...
>
> Dorothy
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----
>
> <?xml version="1.0"?>
> <!DOCTYPE script PUBLIC
> "-//Howard Lewis Ship//Tapestry Script 1.2//EN"
> "http://tapestry.sf.net/dtd/Script_1_2.dtd">
>
> <script>
> <!--
>
> input symbols:
>
> name - report name for question
> optionMap - initialization statement for option name:value
> form - name of form
>
> output symbols:
>
> none
>
> -->
>
> <input-symbol key="name" class="java.lang.String" required="yes"/>
> <input-symbol key="optionMap" class="java.lang.String" required="yes"/>
> <input-symbol key="form" class="java.lang.String" required="yes"/>
>
> <body>
>
> function ${name}_select(optionname)
> {
>     var index = 0;
>     var name = '${name}_' + optionname;
>     var optionmap = ${optionMap};
>     while (index < document.${form}.elements.length) {
>        if (document.${form}.elements[index].type == "hidden") {
>           alert('Trying: ' + document.${form}.elements[index].name);
>           if (document.${form}.elements[index].name == name) {
>               alert('Found: ' + document.${form}.elements[index].name);
>               document.${form}.elements[index].value = optionname;
>               return;
>       }
>        }
>        ++index;
>     }
> }
>
> </body>
> </script>
>
>
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