Treating Special Characters

[Michael Hill]

I have a number of scripts that take special characters and convert them
to their ascii equivalents and them store them in the database.

However I am running into a problem that I have some of those fields are
loaded to an array and inserted into cells dynamically. As an example
the array would be:

var my_array = [ ["52","Sourc e Data"], ["19","Body &
Soap"] ];

Then I have some javascript that creates the cell and inserts the value
into a cell text node like:

var x = my_array[1][1]; // this would be "Body & Soap"

//create the cell
myTD=document.c reateElement("T D");

//create the text node
myText=document .createTextNode (x);

// Appends each node following the structure.
myTD.appendChil d(myText);

What I see on the output is: "Body & Soap"

What I should see is: "Body & Soap"

Anyone know how to get around this?

Mike

[Martin Honnen]

Re: Treating Special Characters



Michael Hill wrote:

[color=blue]
> However I am running into a problem that I have some of those fields are
> loaded to an array and inserted into cells dynamically. As an example
> the array would be:
>
> var my_array = [ ["52","Sourc e Data"], ["19","Body &
> Soap"] ];
>
> Then I have some javascript that creates the cell and inserts the value
> into a cell text node like:
>
> var x = my_array[1][1]; // this would be "Body & Soap"
>
> //create the cell
> myTD=document.c reateElement("T D");
>
> //create the text node
> myText=document .createTextNode (x);
>
> // Appends each node following the structure.
> myTD.appendChil d(myText);
>
> What I see on the output is: "Body & Soap"
>
> What I should see is: "Body & Soap"[/color]

No, what you see is correct, you create a text node with the content
Body & Soap
and that is what you see.
If you want to have the ampersand literally then store
"Body & Soap"
in the JavaScript string.
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Martin Honnen

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