Re: document.write error in Javascript executed on HTML output by XSLT

Steven Bethard wrote:
> Sorry if this has been answered already somewhere -- I searched Google
> groups and couldn't find the answer, but maybe I was searching for the
> wrong things...  Feel free to send a pointer if the answer's already
> out there.
> 
> I get the following error when calling document.write from Javascript
> on a HTML page generated with XSL from an XML document:
> 
> Error: uncaught exception: [Exception... "Component returned failure
> code: 0x80004003 (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)
> [nsIDOMNSHTMLDocument.write]"  nsresult: "0x80004003
> (NS_ERROR_INVALID_POINTER)"  location: "JS frame ::
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/ucsu.js :: writePersonalMenu :: line
> 152"  data: no]
> 
> I start with the document:
> 
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/recipes/bruschetta.xml
> 
> which is linked to the XSL stylesheet:
> 
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/style/recipe.xsl
> 
> The stylesheet generates the following html (among other things):
> 
> <!-- BEGIN SIDEBAR -->
> <script src="../ucsu.js"/>
> <script type="text/javascript">writePersonalMenu()</script>
> <!-- END SIDEBAR -->
> 
> The javascript in
> 
> http://ucsu.colorado.edu/~bethard/ucsu.js
> 
> looks like:
> 
> function writePersonalMenu() {
>         ...
> 	document.write(
> 		'<div id="sidebar">\n' +
> 		'<h1>SITE</h1>\n' +
> 		rootNode.toString(current) +
> 		'<a class="switch-site" href="' + current.pathToRoot +
> 		'index.html">My Professional Site</a>' +
> 		'</div>'
> 	);
> }
> 
> So, basically the idea is that the XML gets transformed to HTML by the
> XSL stylesheet, and then the Javascript operates on the HTML document
> to add the sidebar.  As far as I can tell, I get the error every time
> I hit the document.write call.
> 
> The Javascript runs as I would expect in IE (generating the sidebar
> for the webpage), but in Firefox, I get a blank page and the error I
> mentioned above.  How can I get Firefox to display my sidebar
> correctly?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Steve

document.write is not supported in XSLT output.

Axel