Re: Opening a script from within an iframe

On May 21, 12:09 pm, phreed <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a xul application with several files
> y.xul
> x.xml
> z.js
>
> 'y.xul' contains the following fragment...
> ...
>  <groupbox id="widget_y" flex="1">
>             <caption label="Picture Widget"/>
>             <iframe src="y.xml" id="frame_y" flex="1"/>
>  </groupbox>
> ...
>
> the file 'y.xml' is an svg file that contains the following
> fragment...
> ...
> <svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
>      xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink"
>      xmlns:html="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"
>      onload="init(evt);">
>
>   <script type="text/javascript" src="context/z.js"/>
> ...
>
> the file 'z.js' contains...
>
> function jsdump(str)
> {
>   Components.classes['[email protected]/consoleservice;1']
>             .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIConsoleService)
>             .logStringMessage(str);
>
> }
>
> The problem is that the script 'z.js' is not loaded.
> Apparently the <script> element does not have the correct path for src
> attribute?
> If the line...
>   <script type="text/javascript" src="context/z.js"/>
> ...is replaced with...
>  <script type="text/javascript">
> <![CDATA[
> function jsdump(str)
> {
>   Components.classes['[email protected]/consoleservice;1']
>             .getService(Components.interfaces.nsIConsoleService)
>             .logStringMessage(str);}
>
> // ]]>
> </script>
> ...the jsdump function is properly defined.
> The three files all live in the same 'myapp/chrome/context/'
> directory.
> I have tried the following variations but to no avail.
> <script type="text/javascript" src="z.js"/>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="context/z.js"/>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="chrome://myapp/content/z.js"/>
> <script type="text/javascript" src="file://full-path/content/z.js"/>

It appears to be an 'svg' issue.
<script type="text/javascript" xlink:href="chrome://myapp/content/
z.js"/>
...works fine.