Re: XML and ASP

Thanks, Nik for your help on this.

Also, based on Nik's suggestion, I did a search on "CDATA" and found another
good explanation of what Nik described to me:

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

Hope that helps others as well.

Mike


----- Original Message -----
From: "nik krimm" <nik(at)krimm.net>
To: "'Mike Taylor'" <lonewolf(at)one.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: RE: XML and ASP


> You can
> 1.  Wrap the commentary with a <![CDATA[ commentary here ]]> section (tag)
> before inserting it in the XML.
> 2.  Use a vbscript routine to escape the '<' characters (or remove the
html
> entirely) in the commentary before inserting it in the XML.
>
> 1. is the option i would generally prefer, but its hard to tell what your
> specific context is from your description below.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-hwg-languages(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-languages(at)hwg.org]On
> Behalf Of Mike Taylor
> Sent: Thursday, May 02, 2002 2:23 PM
> To: hwg-languages(at)hwg.org
> Subject: XML and ASP
>
>
> I have an ASP page that I'm using to produce an XML document.
>
> Inside one of the tags are the contents of a commentary that we post.
>
> The catch here is that we have someone in another department who only
> knows some basic HTML tags who embeds this HTML inside the commentary to
> produce bold phrases, italics, images and hyperlinks.
>
> So, when I try to view this outputted page, it gives me an error because
> it's seeing the HTML that is peppered throughout these commentaries. It
> apparently thinks these are XML tags, when in fact it's just HTML.
>
> Since the HTML is necessary, is there any way around this?  Do I have to
> specify something in my Schema file that permits HTML to be included?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Mike
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