[erlang-questions] beginner: Generating HTML with ">" from Erlang

Bengt Kleberg bengt.kleberg@REDACTED
Fri Feb 14 06:30:54 CET 2014


Including a Javascript file works. 
It is not my first choice since I fear the amount of support issues
arising when people send the HTML file in email to somebody else.
Given a solution to that I will use this.


bengt

 On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:00 +0000, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> Include an external js file into html like this:
> 
>    <script type="text/javascript" src="path/to/file.js"></script>
> 
> Ivan
> 
> 
> On 13/02/2014 14:54, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> > Yes, the Javascript could be in a separate file that I would generate.
> >
> > Is it possible to do some sort of "-include()" from the HTML?
> >
> >
> > bengt
> >
> > On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 14:46 +0000, Ivan Uemlianin wrote:
> >> Does all of the javascfript have to be generated dynamically from the
> >> erlang?  Or could you have a static javascript file for most or all of it?
> >>
> >> Ivan
> >>
> >>
> >> On 13/02/2014 14:43, Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> >>> The use-case is not supposed to include XML.
> >>>
> >>> My Erlang server creates a log file. A python script generates HTML from
> >>> the log file. I now consider generating the HTML directly from Erlang
> >>> since I have to call upon another person to fix the python script every
> >>> time the log file format changes. Only the log file format changes, the
> >>> neccessary contents are still present in the Erlang server.
> >>>
> >>> My previous method of HTML generation has been to use xmerl. If I do
> >>> that now then the Javascript part of the HTML will not run.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> bengt
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, 2014-02-13 at 15:31 +0100, Richard Carlsson wrote:
> >>>> On 2014-02-13 15:12 , Bengt Kleberg wrote:
> >>>>> My problem is that Javascript in the HTML file look like this (when
> >>>>> created by xmerl):
> >>>>>
> >>>>> if (i > 0) {
> >>>>>
> >>>>> and that does not run.
> >>>>
> >>>> Out of curiosity, if it had been < instead, which of the following would
> >>>> work?
> >>>>
> >>>>      if (i < 0) {
> >>>>
> >>>>      if (i < 0) {
> >>>>
> >>>> If it is the first case, there is presumably a very specific rule for
> >>>> this, which doesn't do full handling of XML escape sequences on the
> >>>> source code level (since > didn't work). Which seems moronic, but
> >>>> wouldn't surprise me...
> >>>>
> >>>> If it's the second case, how is the script text really supposed to be
> >>>> handled by XML tools? As CDATA (then, how is it delimited?) or as normal
> >>>> XML text (and then how can the < be accepted by the parser, and why
> >>>> wasn't > converted to > before the Javascript parser got hold of the
> >>>> text)?
> >>>>
> >>>>        /Richard
> >>>>
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