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--></style></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink="#954F72"><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Okay, I was able to make gears.json work with the X3D JSON Loader and the server side proto expander with cobweb. I may have to work on the client side prototype expander some more to make it work with X3DOM (likely it’s a script issue instead).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>What I did was replace < and > before sending to CreateX3DFromString, avoiding any web browser interpretation.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='mso-element:para-border-div;border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal style='border:none;padding:0in'><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">John Carlson</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, June 18, 2016 3:42 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:roy.walmsley@ntlworld.com">Roy Walmsley</a>; <a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu">Don Brutzman</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:holger.seelig@yahoo.de">Holger Seelig</a>; <a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: Interesting Example</p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>Okay, I figured out why the X3D JSON Loader wouldn’t load it. When I serialize the JSON to XML, the < and > get converted to < and >. These are not valid to VRMLScript? I am not sure. I will try to do a replacement. I think the best thing to do may be to create a CDATA Section instead of a text node, but I’m not ready to do that (doesn’t work with HTML, I’d say off the cuff).</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>I do have this, which appears to be partially working:</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal> // Fix CDATA sections</p><p class=MsoNormal> xmlstr = xmlstr.replace(/<!\[CDATA\[/g, "<![CDATA[");</p><p class=MsoNormal> xmlstr = xmlstr.replace(/\]\]>/g, "]]>");</p><p class=MsoNormal> do {</p><p class=MsoNormal> var xmlstr2 = xmlstr;</p><p class=MsoNormal> xmlstr = xmlstr2.replace(/(\<\!\[CDATA\[(.|\n)*)<((.|\n)*\]\]\>)/gi, "$1<$3");</p><p class=MsoNormal> } while (xmlstr !== xmlstr2);</p><p class=MsoNormal> do {</p><p class=MsoNormal> xmlstr2 = xmlstr;</p><p class=MsoNormal> xmlstr = xmlstr2.replace(/(\<\!\[CDATA\[(.|\n)*)>((.|\n)*\]\]\>)/gi, "$1>$3");</p><p class=MsoNormal> } while (xmlstr !== xmlstr2);</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>John</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">John Carlson</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Saturday, June 18, 2016 3:15 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:roy.walmsley@ntlworld.com">Roy Walmsley</a>; <a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu">Don Brutzman</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:holger.seelig@yahoo.de">Holger Seelig</a>; <a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>RE: Interesting Example<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal>This example has a lot of scripting, and I doubt if my prototype expander is up to dealing with scripts yet. If we could get<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>a version without scripts, I could try loading it. As it is, even without the prototype expander, the X3D JSON Loader will not load gears.json, even with a Cobweb renderer. Something to work on.</p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Sent from <a href="https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986">Mail</a> for Windows 10</p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #E1E1E1 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b>From: </b><a href="mailto:roy.walmsley@ntlworld.com">Roy Walmsley</a><br><b>Sent: </b>Friday, June 17, 2016 6:32 AM<br><b>To: </b><a href="mailto:yottzumm@gmail.com">John Carlson</a>; <a href="mailto:brutzman@nps.edu">Don Brutzman</a><br><b>Cc: </b><a href="mailto:holger.seelig@yahoo.de">Holger Seelig</a>; <a href="mailto:x3d-public@web3d.org">x3d-public@web3d.org</a><br><b>Subject: </b>Interesting Example<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Hi,</span><span lang=EN-GB><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I have come across an interesting example, relating to the use of Scripts/Prototypes.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>It is on the Cobweb site at <a href="http://titania.create3000.de/cobweb/">http://titania.create3000.de/cobweb/</a>. Scroll down to examples, navigate to Page 3 of the Examples list, and choose “Gears”.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>This example is also available on Holger’s GitHub site at <a href="https://github.com/create3000/Library/tree/master/Examples/Gears">https://github.com/create3000/Library/tree/master/Examples/Gears</a>. There are four files, of which two are XML encoded X3D. The file Rotor.x3d supplies a prototype declaration that is used within gears.x3d.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Try opening the file gears.x3d in different browsers!<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>I don’t know how you would get on with this one, John, in your prototype expander.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span lang=EN-GB>Roy<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>