XHTML strict page problem with javascript

Trampas

Hi

I am create a webpage which uses cookies. It has to be DTD XHTML strict.

The code is working fine but getting warnings with it.

The code I have is

if (document.cookie && document.cookie != "")
{
process_cookie()
}

But i get the following warning



Below is a list of the warning message(s) produced when validating your document.

Warning Line 32 column 21: character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.
if (document.cookie && document.cookie != "")
This message may appear in several cases:

You tried to include the "<" character in your page: you should escape it as "<"
You used an unescaped ampersand "&": this may be valid in some contexts, but it is recommended to use "&", which is always safe.
Another possibility is that you forgot to close quotes in a previous tag.

✉

Warning Line 32 column 22: character "&" is the first character of a delimiter but occurred as data.
if (document.cookie && document.cookie != "")


Do I need a meta tag that will allow me get around this problem.

I know the & is what you would normally use for an & in html but I am doing this in javascript so I didn't think it would be a problem.

Advise would be most helpful

Thank

seamus

Are you inserting the escape tags (<!-- and --> ) inside the <script> tags?

Trampas

seamus wrote:

Are you inserting the escape tags (<!-- and --> ) inside the <script> tags?

Sorry I am not sure exactly what you mean. Here is my javascript

if (document.cookie && document.cookie != "")
{
process_cookie()
}

function process_cookie()
{
var whole_cookie = unescape(document.cookie);
var drop_name = whole_cookie.split("=");
if (drop_name[1] != "")
{
item_number = drop_name[1].split("xxx");
}//ends IF
}//ends process_cookie() function

The code is working fine is just the area in red that is giving me warnings when i validate the code against the W3C website

Trampas

I using the <!-- and --> the W3C validates it no problem but the browser falls over as it doesn't execute any of the javascript

seamus

Sorry, I was thinking of something else....

OfflerCrocGod

Trampas wrote:

The code is working fine is just the area in red that is giving me warnings when i validate the code against the W3C website

Trampas wrote:

I using the <!-- and --> the W3C validates it no problem but the browser falls over as it doesn't execute any of the javascript

Make up your mind I thought your problem was what seamus said btw, but you appear to contradict yourself....

Trampas

When I put the orginal code in with the && the code executes fine. Program runs with no problems.

It is that I have to validate it against the W3C website for XHTML Stricit DTD and it gives me a warning.

It doesn't like the && cause it thinks that it should appear as & and not &

So I have swapped it for the <!-- and --> which it gives me not warnings but the browser IE6 and firefox don't execute the javascript cause it doesn't like the <!-- and -->

cgarvey

You need to look up the use of CDATA for xhtml strict.. basically telling the validator/browser that the enclosed javscript isn't part of the XML dom, it's just raw text which the browser will later interpret.

.cg

Trampas

cheers mate thats the one.