Yes, you are right that works fine and is cleaner. My point is that Zope does not seem to render tal statements between <script> tags. They get ignored. This works <script type="text/javascript" tal:content="here/myscript_js"></script> but this does not. <script type="text/javascript" > <tal:block tal:content="here/myscript_js" /> </script> Andy

-----Original Message----- From: zope-bounces@zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces@zope.org] On Behalf Of Duncan Booth Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 9:04 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] RE: Dynamically generating JavaScript

Andy Yates wrote:

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When I've had to include dynamic javascript I write a python method that prints the whole script block and then call that from a tal:block.

<tal:block tal:replace="structure python: here.myscript_js()" />

myscript_js would look like this

print """<script> var1 = 1; var2 = 2; var3 = 3; </script>"""

return printed

Wouldn't it make more sense to do:

<script type="text/javascript" tal:content="here/myscript_js"></script>

and just have myscript_js print the Javascript without the enclosing script tags?

for i in range(1,4): print "var%d = %d" % (i, i)

return printed

Or even better, if your script contents don't depend on values from the current request use:

<script type="text/javascript" src="myscript_js"></script>

which keeps the Javascript entirely outside the html so you don't have to worry about embedded angle brackets.

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