How do I color text with XML tags?

#1 July 20th, 2005, 09:26 PM

I am trying to display some XML-tagged text in a web page. The
following example works well in Netscape 7.1, but only the H2 heading
is colored in MSIE. It seems that MSIE only applies style attributes
to tags that it recognizes.

Is there a way in which this can be done? Is it possible to format
the XML part (from <azTagger> to </azTagger>) with XLS? If so, how?

Thanks
xyz

======== START OF HTML FILE ===========
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<title>test</title>
<style type="text/css">

</style>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#800080"
alink="#ff0000">
<h2>Test of colored Text</h2>

<azTagger>
<azParag>
<azsent><azphr class="n"><azPOS p="N">Albert </azPOS><azPOS
p="N">Einstein </azPOS></azPhr><azPhr class="V"><azPOS p="X">was
</azPOS></azPhr><azPhr class="N"><azPOS p="N#" o="JN#">one
</azPOS></azPhr><azphr class="p"><azPOS class="R">of
</azPOS><azPOS p="T">the </azPOS><azPOS p="J" o="AJ">greatest
</azPOS><azPOS p="N">scientists
</azPOS></azPhr><azPhr class="P"><azPOS class="R">of </azPOS><azPOS
p="D">all </azPOS><azPOS p="N" o="NV">time</azPOS></azPhr>.
</azSent><azsent> <azPhr class="N"><azPOS p="P">He
</azPOS></azPhr><azPhr class="V"><azPOS p="X">is
</azPOS><azPOS p="A" o="AJNV">best </azPOS><azPOS p="V" o="NV">known
</azPOS></azPhr><azPhr class="P"><azPOS class="R">for
</azPOS><azPOS p="P">his </azPOS><azPOS p="N">theory
</azPOS></azPhr><azPhr class="P"><azPOS class="R">of
</azPOS><azPOS p="N">relativity</azPOS></azPhr>.</azSent>
</azParag>
</azTagger>

</body>
</html>
======== END OF HTML FILE ====

#2 July 20th, 2005, 09:26 PM

xyz wrote:
[color=blue]
> I am trying to display some XML-tagged text in a web page.[/color]
[color=blue]
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
> <html>[/color]

If you want to use an XML file, then don't give it an SGML Doctype (that it
doesn't conform to anyway), and send it with a content type of
application/xml, not text/html.

--
David Dorward http://dorward.me.uk/

#3 July 20th, 2005, 09:27 PM

David Dorward <dorward@yahoo.com> wrote:
[color=blue]
> If you want to use an XML file, then don't give it an SGML Doctype
> (that it doesn't conform to anyway), and send it with a content
> type of application/xml, not text/html.[/color]

And, of course, if you present something as XML, then, for example, h2
is just another tag, with no defined meaning or implied default
presentation. It's not bigger, it's not bold, it's not even a block.
That is, you need to style everything.

Moreover, you need to write at least "well-formed" XML, which means
that start and end tags match exactly (in case, too), and you the exact
tag names in CSS too.

--
Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/

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