Subj : Re: E4X support in mozilla?
To   : netscape.public.mozilla.jseng
From : Martin Honnen
Date : Thu Jan 06 2005 09:09 pm



Brendan Eich wrote:


> <script type="text/javascript;e4x=1">
> var x = <t><u id="1">one</u><u id="2">two</u><u id="3">three</u></t>;
> alert(x.toXMLString());
> </script>

What is happening if I have several script elements in a HTML document, 
some saying
   <script type="text/javascript;e4x=1">
some
   <script type="text/javascript">
will they share variables? It seems they do here with a Mozilla nightly 
some days old.

It also seems
   typeof XML
is function event in
   <script type="text/javascript">
blocks. Does that mean it is possible to construct native XML object 
with new XML() in <script type="text/javascript"> blocks, only parsing 
of XML "literals" wouldn't work there?



As for that <script type="text/javascript;e4x=1"> Content-Type notation, 
is that something that Mozilla has "invented" to enable web developers 
to distinguish between "normal" JavaScript and E4X enabled JavaScript or 
is that something the participants in the ECMA working group have agreed 
on? Unfortunately Opera browers for instance try to consume such <script 
type="text/javascript;e4x=1"> and then obviously throw syntax errors.

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	Martin Honnen
	http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

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