Anyone seen a Javascript interpreter in Python?
Robert Ginda
rginda at netscape.com
Wed Dec 11 02:48:17 EST 2002
Thanks alot for the Venkman praise. I'm glad to hear you like it and
have found it useful. I replied to your post because it came up in my
weekly Google search for Venkman, and it sounded like you might have a
legitimate beef. Hopefully I didn't come off as offended or anything.
I'm a bit confused though, when I checked the source of your link, I
couldn't find any <script> tags. Shouldn't there be at least one?
Rob.
Robert Oschler wrote:
> "Robert Ginda" <rginda at netscape.com> wrote in message
> news:at5n3l$m46$1 at pixie.nscp.aoltw.net...
>
>>Where exactly is Venkman falling short? It's got some problems loading
>>source during page load, but you can work around that with Pretty Print
>>mode. I've debugged some fairly complicated scripts (including Venkman
>>itself) without any real issues. I've never even attempted to debug an
>>XML document though, so there could be some issues there that I don't
>>know about. I'd be interested to hear specific problems or suggestions
>>you might have.
>>
>>
>>Rob.
>>(The guy who wrote Venkman.)
>
>
> Rob,
>
> Please don't misinterpret my post. Venkman is terrific and it's made the
> chore of debugging in-page JavaScript go from brutal to livable, a very fine
> piece of work. But here's the problem I've been having, and if it's a *user
> error* my apologies in advance. So I don't express something improperly,
> here's the exact situation. I've been using Amazon's Web Services server to
> generate HTML documents from an XML query I submit with an attached
> reference to an XSL document that resides on my web server. Amazon returns
> an HTML document that has JavaScript embedded into it via the processing of
> my XSL document. For some reason, when Mozilla renders the page, it does
> not propagate the JavaScript on the page into Venkman like it does with a
> "regular" web page, so I can't use Venkman. So I have to set up a trial
> client side using Microsoft's XML ActiveX object , MSXML2 3.0 and:
>
> - mirror the query by submitting the XML query to Amazon and loading it into
> an MSXML2 object.
> - load the XSL document on my web server locally into an MXSML2 object
> - transform the XML document returned by Amazon with the XSL document
> - write the results of the transformation to a web page
> - load it into Mozilla and then debug it with Venkman
>
> This of course is a lot of work and in addition, is questionable, because
> the resulting debuggable document is being generated via a series of steps
> different from the original, introducing uncertainty into the debugging
> process.
>
> Here's a query if you want to try it yourself;
>
> http://xml.amazon.com/onca/xml2?&t=webservices-20&dev-t=VADAX187287&ActorSea
> rch=shania%20twain&mode=dvd&type=heavy&page=1&sort=+titlerank&f=http://www.a
> ndroidtechnologies.com/xsl/test_template_standard.xsl
>
> And again using a Tiny URL in case the above query URL gets mangled:
>
> http://tinyurl.com/3f8p
>
> Again, if I'm just doing something silly, point it out, I can handle it.
> But that's what motivated my original post. Venkman's great, period, I just
> can't use it in my current development environment.
>
> thx
>
>
>
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