document.print in XHTML

[Pygmalion]

I am using a ultra-simple PHP counter, that counts number of visits in
a plain txt file counter.txt, e.g.

index 10
pictures 8
cv 6

To display the number of visits, I use this combination:

<script type="text/javascript" src="counter.txt"></script>
....
Number of visits: <script type="text/
javascript">document.write(pictures)</script>

This ultra-simple thing works perfect in HTML, but not in XHTML, since
XHTML does not support document.write any more. Is there a way around
for this problem?

Thanks, Marko.

 

[Pygmalion]

index 10
pictures 8
cv 6

Correction: counter.txt looks like this

index = 10
pictures = 8
cv = 6

 

[news.virginmedia.com]

I am using a ultra-simple PHP counter, that counts number of visits in
a plain txt file counter.txt, e.g.

index 10
pictures 8
cv 6

To display the number of visits, I use this combination:

<script type="text/javascript" src="counter.txt"></script>
...
Number of visits: <script type="text/
javascript">document.write(pictures)</script>

This ultra-simple thing works perfect in HTML, but not in XHTML, since
XHTML does not support document.write any more. Is there a way around
for this problem?

Thanks, Marko.

I think the way around this is to use document.createTextNode(pictures)
Not sure if this is correct but just a suggestion.

 

[Pygmalion]

I think the way around this is to use document.createTextNode(pictures)
Not sure if this is correct but just a suggestion.

I figured that myself. But it seems that createtextnode won't take
variable as an argument!

Marko

 

[news.virginmedia.com]

I figured that myself. But it seems that createtextnode won't take
variable as an argument!

Marko

Where do you get this info?

Works for me in IE, try this in your browser:

<SCRIPT>
var pictures= 8;
var text = document.createTextNode(pictures);
document.body.appendChild(text);
</SCRIPT>


ALso what you say doesn't really make sense re: " XHTML does not support
document.write ".
I say this because document.write is a javascript method and xhtml doesn't
really have anything to do with javascript.
SO where does this come from?

 

[Dave]

ALso what you say doesn't really make sense re: " XHTML does not support
document.write ". I say this because document.write is a javascript method
and xhtml doesn't really have anything to do with javascript.
SO where does this come from?

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/document.write
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#docwrite

 

[news.virginmedia.com]

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/document.write
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#docwrite

thx for links

 

[Evertjan.]

Dave wrote on 29 aug 2010 in comp.lang.javascript:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/document.write
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/2004/xhtml-faq#docwrite

W3S:
"Does document.write work in XHTML?

No. Because of the way XML is defined, it is not possible to do tricks like
this, where markup is generated by scripting while the parser is still
parsing the markup."

But that does not include open();write();close() after the parser is done,
like in the OQ's "onload =".

Does the definition of XML really contain the "way" the parser should work,
or just the results?