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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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