XmlDataSource and embeded HTML within your XML data

[Sleazy]

Hi,

I am attempting to right a news scroller control that is driven by and XML
file. The way I have it set up is:

<News>
<Item Title="sometitle">
html content goes here
</Item>
</News>

My hope was to be able to put the html for each news post in the middle of
the Item elememts and then fetch those using an asp:DataList. Well everything
works except that I loose my html tags. I get all the text but don't get
links, formating, etc...

I am using <%#XPath(".") %> to fetch the html content from the Xml in my
DataList control. Is there a way to have the html tags make it to the browser
using this setup?

Thanks,

Ryan

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Sleazy wrote:

Hi,

I am attempting to right a news scroller control that is driven by and XML
file. The way I have it set up is:

<News>
<Item Title="sometitle">
html content goes here
</Item>
</News>

My hope was to be able to put the html for each news post in the middle of
the Item elememts and then fetch those using an asp:DataList. Well everything
works except that I loose my html tags. I get all the text but don't get
links, formating, etc...

I am using <%#XPath(".") %> to fetch the html content from the Xml in my
DataList control. Is there a way to have the html tags make it to the browser
using this setup?

Thanks,

Ryan

I think that you need a CDATA section.
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

HTH,
Laurent
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[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Thanks Laurent for your input.

Hi Ryan,

I agree with Laurent that you will need a CDATA section to store the HTML
content. Please feel free to post here if you need more help and anything
is unclear.
Regards,
Walter Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support

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