[Zope] RE: Dynamically generating JavaScript

[Andy Yates]

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 at zope.org [mailto:zope-bounces at zope.org] On Behalf
Of Duncan Booth
> Sent: Monday, February 14, 2005 9:04 AM
> To: zope at zope.org
> Subject: [Zope] RE: Dynamically generating JavaScript
> 
> Andy Yates wrote:
> 
> > 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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