XML and javascript

[ChefMo]

Any way to ruin javascript from inside of a .xml file?
(<?xml-script...> or the like)

 

[Jeff North]

On Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:30:45 -0700 (PDT), in comp.lang.javascript
ChefMo <[email protected]>

| Any way to ruin javascript from inside of a .xml file?
| (<?xml-script...> or the like)

Alot of people can ruin javascript without the need for xml

But seriously, XML is data only therefore can not run scripts.
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[Bart Van der Donck]

Any way to ruin javascript from inside of a .xml file?
(<?xml-script...> or the like)

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XML:
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<root>
<jscode>alert('Hi from XML');</jscode>
</root>

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javascript:
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try {
x = new ActiveXObject('Microsoft.XMLDOM');
}
catch(e) {
try {
x = document.implementation.createDocument('', '', null);
}
catch(e) {
alert(e.message);
}
}

if (typeof(x) == 'object') {
x.async = false;
x.load('file.xml');
eval(x.getElementsByTagName('jscode')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue);
}

 

[Martin Honnen]

Any way to ruin javascript from inside of a .xml file?
(<?xml-script...> or the like)

Well there are XML formats like XHTML or SVG which have a script
element. And with Mozilla or Opera you can put an XHTML script element
into other XML formats, a simple example is
http://home.arcor.de/martin.honnen/xml/test2008042202.xml.
However you are much better off in directly using HTML or XHTML for the
complete document, perhaps by transforming your XML to HTML or XHTML
using XSLT.