brady.k — Tue, 29 Apr 2003 00:11:32 +0000

i saw that, and i decided to go ahead and link to an external document, as i do with php as well...thanks, i got it working now

Busy — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 23:04:47 +0000

if your using server side as well (PHP, ASP ...) don't use <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> (don't need xml version and can put the encoding in meta tag) or the cdata comments as it can mess things up.
The is meant to be the new comment system for xml but IMHO wasn't thought out properly as it messes with serverside stuff. comments inside your script tags are for the older browsers that don't support it, you can easily leave them out these days as 99% of browsers support it, even if they don't they wont be able to display the xhtml anyways.

brady.k — Sun, 27 Apr 2003 17:50:00 +0000

argh...ok, thanks...i'll try to see what i can do, if i cant figure it out, i'll start a new thread

dk01 — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 21:32:57 +0000

Ok that code was written on a unix machine or something and I have to say that without the full page we won't be able to help. The javascript is not the problem most likely, instead the xhtml is probably the culprit.
-dk

brady.k — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 15:51:09 +0000

yea, thats what i thought...anyways, its a long script...so i'll post a link

this is a test page: (and its in a file instead of being in the page, cuz i really don't want to show the page itself right now)
http://westernciv.sarvihosting.com/header.js

dk01 — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 07:57:22 +0000

Can we see the page because I know you need the cdata things for it to work. If not then the xml preprocessor will think that your javascript (eg. if(myvar > 1) ) is actually html and make it into: if(myvar > 1) )

If you show the code we may be able to see whats wrong.
-dk

brady.k — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:55:17 +0000

actually i did a little research on w3c.org about the XHTML Strict documentation...and i found the reason was acutally i didn't explain it was "unescaped javascript content"...so heres what i got, but the JS doesnt work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html 
     PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
<head>

'
blah, blah

&lt;script type="text/javascript"&gt;
<![CDATA[

'
rest of the JS

]]>
&lt;/script&gt;

if i take the CData stuff out...it works...but with it, it doesnt...i copied and pasted straight from W3C http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/#h-4.8

anybody got a clue? thanks

brady.k — Sat, 26 Apr 2003 02:27:44 +0000

i don't have to close the "<script LANGUAGE="thelanguageofthescript">"?

thanks

fspigroup — Fri, 25 Apr 2003 21:07:41 +0000

the best way to link to a javascript file is:

It should be as sime as that.