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RE: Pop-up window
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- Subject: RE: [xsl] Pop-up window
- From: "Chris Bayes" <chris at bayes dot co dot uk>
- Date: Sat, 1 Sep 2001 01:01:39 +0100
- Reply-To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
Jenny,
Have a look at the beer tutorials
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml/index.xml?/xml/tutorial/filtering/filter.xml
for a different way of doing this. If you are doing it serverside then
change your link to be something like
href="www.someplace.com/gimmeonebibitem.asp?id=someid" which would
return a single bibitem and an associated stylesheet
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" title="bibitemStylesheet"
href="bibitem.xsl" alternate="no" media="screen"?>
<bibitem type="inproceedings">
<author URL="http://www.cs.utah.edu/~whitaker/">R.
Whitaker</author>
<booktitle>Fifth
...
Or do the transform o the server and return the html.
Ciao Chris
XML/XSL Portal
http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com] On Behalf Of
> Jenny Simpson
> Sent: 31 August 2001 23:54
> To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
> Subject: [xsl] Pop-up window
>
>
> Hi all,
> My problem is fairly straight-forward. I have a
> bibliography database in xml that is displayed as a list of
> publications using xsl. "Abstract" is one of the fields
> contained in each entry. Here is a sample entry:
>
> <bibitem type="inproceedings">
> <author URL="http://www.cs.utah.edu/~whitaker/">R.
> Whitaker</author>
> <booktitle>Fifth
> International Conference on Computer Vision '95</booktitle>
> <keywords>Deformable Models</keywords>
> <month>June</month>
> <note>(full paper, peer review)</note>
> <pages>822--827</pages>
> <title>Algorithms for implicit deformable models</title>
> <year>1995</year>
> <abstract><p>This paper presents a framework for
> implicit deformable models and a pair of new algorithms for
> solving the nonlinear partial differential equations that
> result from this framework. Implicit models offer a useful
> alternative to parametric models, particularly when dealing
> with the deformation of higher-dimensional objects. The basic
> expressions for the evolution of implicit models are
> relatively straightforward; they follow as a direct
> consequence of the chain rule for differentiation. More
> challenging, however, is the development of algorithms that
> are stable and efficient.
>
> <p>The first algorithm is a viscosity approximation
> which gives solutions over a dense set in the range,
> providing a means of calculating the solutions of embedded
> families of contours simultaneously. The second algorithm
> incorporates sparse solutions for a discrete set of contours.
> This sparse-field method requires a fraction of the
> computation compared to the first but offers solutions only
> for a finite number of contours. Results from 3d medical data
> as well as video images are shown.
> </abstract>
> </bibitem>
>
> I have the abstract displayed as a link and I want the user
> to be able to click on the abstract for any publication and
> see a pop-up window containing the abstract and other related
> information.
>
> The problem with using a regular javasript pop-up window is
> that I don't want to refer to a different URL; I want to
> display the current values in the current node and I would
> lose that information if I referred to a new URL. The option
> that seems best is the pass the current element values as
> parameters to a javascript function, then build the content
> for the pop-up window in the javascript itself. The
> javascript looks like
> this:
>
>
> function subWrite(thisAbstract, author, month, year, title,
> journal, editor, volume, number, pages, publisher){
> makeNewWindow();
> newWindow.focus();
> var newContent = "<html><head><title>Abstract</title></head>";
> newContent += "<body><h1>Abstract</h1>";
> newContent += thisAbstract;
> newContent += "</body></html>";
> newWindow.document.write(newContent);
> newWindow.document.close();
> }
>
>
> The function call in the xsl looks like this:
>
> <a href="javascript:subWrite('{$thisAbstract}', '{$author}',
> '{$month}', '{$year}', '{$title}', '{$journal}', '{$editor}',
> '{$volume}', '{$number}', '{$pages}', '{$publisher}')">Abstract</a>
>
>
> This works fine as long as there are no single or double
> quotes in the variables being passes as parameters. In other
> words, if the abstract contains a quotation mark somewhere
> (and many do), the xsl interprets the quote as if it is the
> end of the function call instead of just ignoring it as part
> of the text.
>
> Is there a way to pass xsl element values (values which
> change depending
> on context) to a javascript function without having the xsl
> try to parse the values in the process?
>
> Also, is there a better way to create a pop-up window to
> display values from current nodes in xsl? I hope this made
> sense. Thanks in advance.
>
> Jenny Simpson
> Sci Institute
>
>
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