As follow up to my question here - How to transform an XML file with XSLT, using a Greasemonkey script? - I'm facing another problem:
I want to use some basic javascript functions in my XSL template in order to control the display of some divs. However, no matter how I include these javascript functions, they don't seem to be recognized. I already investigated a lot but I can't seem to get around it.
I tried 2 things:
- Adding the javascript in the XSL template in a
<script>tag - Appending a new
<script>tag in the Greasemonkey script itself
I would prefer not to use jQuery or an external JS file (which I also tried) to keep it as simple as possible, but if that would solve the problem I'm open to change the whole thing!
In either case when I call the function I get a ReferenceError: x is not defined. I do see that the javascript code sits nicely in the final HTML result though. When I use Firebug to append a new <script> tag with a simple function that alerts "hello" to a plain html page then it works perfectly. It's only when this is done on top of a XSLT transformation things go wrong (for the sake of simplicity I'm just using a simple function to show an alert box).
Here's my sample data:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<Results>
<Result>
<Listings total="2">
<Res>
<Result index="0">
<id>123456</id>
<name>My Business</name>
<category>Restaurants</category>
<phone>9872365</phone>
</Result>
</Res>
<Res>
<Result index="1">
<id>876553</id>
<name>Some Other Business</name>
<category>Restaurants</category>
<phone>9834756</phone>
</Result>
</Res>
</Listings>
</Result>
</Results>
Here's the first attempt where I just added a <script> tag in the <head> tag:
// ==UserScript==
// @name _Test XML Renderer
// @description stylesheet for xml results
// @include *
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
var xsl_str = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n\
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">\n\
<xsl:output method="html"/>\n\
<xsl:template match="/">\n\
<html>\n\
<head><script type="text/javascript">function hello() {alert("hello")};</script></head>\n\
<body>\n\
<table id="results" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">\n\
<thead>\n\
<tr>\n\
<th class="name">id</th>\n\
<th class="name">category ID</th>\n\
<th class="name">name</th>\n\
<th class="name">phone</th>\n\
</tr>\n\
</thead>\n\
<tbody>\n\
<xsl:for-each select="Results/Result/Listings/Res">\n\
<tr>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<a href="#" onclick="hello()"><xsl:value-of select="Result/id"/></a>\n\
</td>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<xsl:value-of select="Result/category"/>\n\
</td>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<xsl:value-of select="Result/name"/>\n\
</td>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<xsl:value-of select="Result/phone"/>\n\
</td>\n\
</tr>\n\
</xsl:for-each>\n\
</tbody>\n\
</table>\n\
</body>\n\
</html>\n\
</xsl:template>\n\
</xsl:stylesheet>\n\
';
var processor = new XSLTProcessor ();
var dataXSL = new DOMParser ().parseFromString (xsl_str, "text/xml");
processor.importStylesheet (dataXSL);
var newDoc = processor.transformToDocument (document);
//-- These next lines swap the new, processed doc in for the old one...
window.content = newDoc;
document.replaceChild (
document.importNode (newDoc.documentElement, true),
document.documentElement
);
Here's my other attempt where I add the "hello" function outside the XSL template:
// ==UserScript==
// @name _Test XML Renderer
// @description stylesheet for xml results
// @include *
// @grant none
// ==/UserScript==
var xsl_str = '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>\n\
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">\n\
<xsl:output method="html"/>\n\
<xsl:template match="/">\n\
<html>\n\
<head></head>\n\
<body>\n\
<table id="results" border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">\n\
<thead>\n\
<tr>\n\
<th class="name">id</th>\n\
<th class="name">category ID</th>\n\
<th class="name">name</th>\n\
<th class="name">phone</th>\n\
</tr>\n\
</thead>\n\
<tbody>\n\
<xsl:for-each select="Results/Result/Listings/Res">\n\
<tr>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<a href="#" onclick="hello()"><xsl:value-of select="Result/id"/></a>\n\
</td>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<xsl:value-of select="Result/category"/>\n\
</td>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<xsl:value-of select="Result/name"/>\n\
</td>\n\
<td class="small" width="120">\n\
<xsl:value-of select="Result/phone"/>\n\
</td>\n\
</tr>\n\
</xsl:for-each>\n\
</tbody>\n\
</table>\n\
</body>\n\
</html>\n\
</xsl:template>\n\
</xsl:stylesheet>\n\
';
var processor = new XSLTProcessor ();
var dataXSL = new DOMParser ().parseFromString (xsl_str, "text/xml");
processor.importStylesheet (dataXSL);
var newDoc = processor.transformToDocument (document);
var script = "function hello() {alert('hello')};";
var newElem = newDoc.createElement('script');
newElem.type = 'text/javascript';
newElem.appendChild(newDoc.createTextNode(script));
newDoc.getElementsByTagName('head').item(0).appendChild(newElem);
//-- These next lines swap the new, processed doc in for the old one...
window.content = newDoc;
document.replaceChild (
document.importNode (newDoc.documentElement, true),
document.documentElement
);
