Executing JS in Component

acezone

Hi All,

I am new to SitePublisher, and requirement is such that a system date using JS code, has to be executed in component.

Attached is snippet in Appearance XSL. Please do let me know if I am missing any other piece od code in the component either in Content XML or Appearance XML.

Any help would be highly appreciated.

Regards,
Ace

Stokes

Ace,

I didn't test it or check every line, but conceptually this looks okay. The only problem I noticed is that you'll have to escape some of your JavaScript to avoid XML parsing problems in your stylesheet, or put the script body inside a CDATA section.

So your section that says:

<script language="javascript">
today = new Date();
daynum = today.getDate();
//dayint = today.getDay();
year = today.getYear();
if (year <= 200) {
year = year + 1900;
}
...
</script>

Would instead have to have every <, >, and & escaped:

<script language="javascript">
today = new Date();
daynum = today.getDate();
//dayint = today.getDay();
year = today.getYear();
if (year &lt;= 200) {
year = year + 1900;
}
...
</script>

OR, be in a CDATA section like this:

<script language="javascript">
<![CDATA[
today = new Date();
daynum = today.getDate();
//dayint = today.getDay();
year = today.getYear();
if (year <= 200) {
year = year + 1900;
}
...
]]>
</script>

You shouldn't really need anything in Content XML or Appearance XML for this component, unless you wanted to give the page author options about the format of the date or anything, or the name of a CSS class to give the surrounding <div>.

Stokes.