[jdom-interest] Help with <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">

Tue Sep 10 10:00:42 PDT 2002

For me, using xalan, it works with output set at both html or xml.

I've been working on a small web application. The design is that
there won't be html. There will only be XSLT which will look a
lot like html. I'm hoping to take the session object and JDOMize
it and then use that as a session variable. So I'd get the data,
put it in a JDOM element to a transform, prompt the data to confirm
what he's entered, and then finish up with emails and database
operations.

Having disable-output-escaping lets me :

1. Have Javascript in the xml,
2. Makes the xsl (html) more maintainable
3. Resolves some issues associated with textareas.

I did read in the archive that someone ran into the same problem
and ended up modifying the source code.

Personally, I think if JDOM is to be taken seriously this is a must.

Here is an example XML and XSL ...

=============
<?xml version = "1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>
<fac-building>
<location>Stoneridge</location>
<name>Jon Smith</name>
<dept>Accounting</dept>
<date>02/22/03</date>
<extension>5244</extension>
<request_type>
 <building_mechanics></building_mechanics>
 <office_equipment></office_equipment>
 <personal_work>
 <desk_number/>
 </personal_work>
 <furniture></furniture>
 <common></common>
 <relocation>
  <desk_from>2055</desk_from>
  <desk_to>2088</desk_to>
 </relocation>
</request_type>
<text><![CDATA[how now brown cow & this is <> something to do ...]]></text>
<manager_email><![CDATA[emmett.mclean at rhi.com]]></manager_email>
</fac-building>

==============
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">
<xsl:preserve-space elements="*"/>
<xsl:output method='html' encoding='ISO-8859-1' indent="yes"/>

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>
<body bgcolor="#FFFFFF">
<title>Facilities/Building Services Work Request Form</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"/>

<xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
<![CDATA[
<style type="text/css">
<!--
body { font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; background-color: #FFFFFF}
-->
</style>
]]>
</xsl:text>

<img src="images/facilities_pic.gif" width="55" height="40"/>
<img src="images/facilities.gif" width="304" height ="39"/>
<h2><font color="#003399">Building Services Work Request Form<b></b></font></h2>
<p align="center"><font size="2"><b>One request per form.</b></font></p>
<form name="form" action="/jdomex/Test2" method="post" onSubmit="validate();">
<p align="center">
<!-- select Stoneridge by default -->
 <xsl:choose>
  <xsl:when test="/fac-building/location='Gibraltor'">
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Stoneridge" >Stoneridge</input>
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Gibraltor" checked="true">Gibraltor</input>
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Hopyard">Hopyard</input>
  ]]></xsl:text>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:when test="/fac-building/location='Hopyard'">
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Stoneridge" >Stoneridge</input>
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Gibraltor" >Gibraltor</input>
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Hopyard" checked="true">Hopyard</input>
  ]]></xsl:text>
  </xsl:when>
  <xsl:otherwise>
  <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes"><![CDATA[
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Stoneridge" checked="true">Stoneridge</input>
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Gibraltor">Gibraltor</input>
  <input type="radio" name="location" value="Hopyard">Hopyard</input>
  ]]></xsl:text>
  </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</p>
<hr/>
<hr/>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
    <tr valign="top">
      <td width="50%" height="16" align="right">Requestor's Name
      <input type="text" name="name" value="{fac-building/name}"/>
      </td>
      <td width="50%" height="16" >Requestor's Dept
      <input type="text" name="dept" value="{fac-building/dept}"/>
      </td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="top">
      <td width="50%" height="16" align="right">Request Date
      <input type="text" name="date" value="{fac-building/date}"/>
   </td><td></td>
    </tr>
    <tr valign="top">
      <td width="50%" height="16" align="right">Extension
      <input type="text" name="extension" value="{fac-building/extension}"/>
    </td><td></td>
    </tr>
</table>
<p><b><font color="#003399">Check appropriate box below</font></b></p>
<input type="radio" name="request" value="building_mechanics"
checked="{fac-building/request_type/building_mechanics}"/>
Building mechanics (air conditioning, heat, structural, etc.)<br/>

<input type="radio" name="request" value="office_equipment"
checked="{fac-building/request_type/office_equipment}"/>
Office Equipment (faxes, copiers, printers, etc.) <br/>

<input type="radio" name="request" value="personal_work"
checked="{fac-building/request_type/personal_work}"/>
Personal work space: (desk, chair, articulating keyboard, etc.)&#160;Desk
#
<input type="text" name="PersonalDesk" size="4"
value="{fac-building/request_type/personal_work/desk_number}"
/><br/>

<input type="radio" name="request" value="furniture"
checked="{fac-building/request_type/furniture}"/>
Furniture<br/>

<input type="radio" name="request" value="common"
checked="{fac-building/request_type/common}"/>
Common area needs (kitchen supplies, restrooms, conference room table,
etc.)<br/>

<i><b>**</b></i>Desk relocation; Desk # From
<input type="text" name="desk_from" size="4"
value="{fac-building/request_type/relocation/desk_from}"/>
To <input type="text" name="desk_to" size="4"
value="{fac-building/request_type/relocation/desk_to}"/>

<br/>
<i><b>**<a href="/forms/corp-telecom.pdf">Requires Telecom Form</a></b>
</i>(can be found on BobNet under IT Forms.)<br/>

<input type="radio" name="request" value="Other"/>Other
<input type="text" name="other" size="50"/><p/>

** All Telecom forms are to be sent to Network Services
for processing. Any Telecom forms sent to Facilities will be forwarded
to Network Services.

<p><b><font color="#003399">Describe the nature of your request</font></b><br/>
<textarea name="text" cols="60" rows="5">
  <xsl:value-of select="/fac-building/text"/>
</textarea>
</p>

This form requires supervisor/manager
approval.
In lieu of authorizing signature, the form must be sent from the supervisor's/manager's
mailbox.

<p>Department Manager's e-mail address:
<input type="text" name="manager_email" size="30" value="{fac-building/manager_email}"/>
</p>
<p align="center">
<input type="submit" name="Submit" value="Submit"
onClick="MM_validateForm('Requestor Name','','R','Requestor Dept','','R','Date','','R');return
document.MM_returnValue"/>
</p>

</form>
</body>
</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

-- 
Emmett McLean
emmettwa at onebox.com - email
(866) 841-9139 x1160 - voicemail/fax

---- Laurent Bihanic <laurent.bihanic at atosorigin.com> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> disable-output-escaping only applies when the XSLT processor outputs
> the 
> result as XML ou HTML. It does not apply when the output is a SAX event
> flow 
> as it is the case when you use JDOMResult.
> JDOM receives a sequence of characters and, when requested to ouput
> the 
> document as XML, performs the escaping so that the output XML represents
> the 
> actual JDOM document content. In your case, this content is text.
> 
> The only way JDOM could reproduce Xalan behaviour would be for XMLOutputter
> to 
> interpret the <?javax.xml.transform.disable-output-escaping?> PI.
> Opinions?
> 
> Laurent
> 
> 
> Emmett McLean wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > It appears what disable-output-escaping works in xalan
> > but not in JDOM. I wonder you know of a way to enable it?
> > 
> > I have an XSLT which works fine with an XML file if I
> > do the transformation on the command line using xalan.
> > 
> > However, when I do the transform in JDOM the following code
> > which works OK in xalan ...
> > 
> > <xsl:text disable-output-escaping="yes">
> > <![CDATA[
> > <style type="text/css">
> > <!--
> > body { font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; background-color:
> #FFFFFF}
> > -->
> > </style>
> > ]]>
> > </xsl:text>
> > 
> > Gets rendered in JDOM as ...
> > 
> > <?javax.xml.transform.disable-output-escaping?>
> > 
> > <style type="text/css">
> > <!--
> > body { font-family: Arial, Verdana, sans-serif; background-color:
> #FFFFFF}
> > -->
> > </style>
> > 
> > 
> > In otherwords the disable-output-escaping tag fails.
> > 
> > I can email both the xsl and xml if someone would like to experiment.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > em
> 
>  