XHTML problematic, in xml used w/ .net

[Jason Shohet]

I have an xml file (that is updated through infopath), which populates
various .net controls.
One of the elements in my xml file contains XHTML tags: And the xml text
reader object that .NET provides, cannot read elements of an xml file that
contain xhtml. The reader does not return the text, if it contains a <td>
tag, or a <font> tag etc. Below is my pseudo code I use to get the
contents of the element.

XMLTextReader reader = newXMLTextReader();
lblDescription.Text = reader.ReadString() ; // the reader does not return
anything if it contains xhtml

Any ideas of what to do? I definately need that xhtml stuff in the xml
file... Otherwise the label will contain just a big runon sentence, instead
of formatted paragraphs.

ty
Jason Shohet

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Jason Shohet <__******@yahoo.com> wrote:

I have an xml file (that is updated through infopath), which populates
various .net controls.
One of the elements in my xml file contains XHTML tags: And the xml text
reader object that .NET provides, cannot read elements of an xml file that
contain xhtml. The reader does not return the text, if it contains a <td>
tag, or a <font> tag etc. Below is my pseudo code I use to get the
contents of the element.

XMLTextReader reader = newXMLTextReader();
lblDescription.Text = reader.ReadString() ; // the reader does not return
anything if it contains xhtml

Any ideas of what to do? I definately need that xhtml stuff in the xml
file... Otherwise the label will contain just a big runon sentence, instead
of formatted paragraphs.

Could you post a short but complete program which demonstrates the
problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for details of
what I mean by that.

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[Jason Shohet]

Daniel,

I agree style is better... Unfort. Microsoft is regressive. The actual
xhtml was produced by their 'new' infopath product.... which placed the
<font> tags in there hehehe.

How do I use CDATA?
"Daniel Jin" <Da*******@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:F7**********************************@microsof t.com...

well, your xhtml tags will be treated like any other xml tags. you can wrap it inside a CDATA section to tell the parser not to parse the string as
xml.
on a side note, why are you using <font> with xhtml? it has long been considered deprecated. use style instead. :)
"Jason Shohet" wrote:

I have an xml file (that is updated through infopath), which populates
various .net controls.
One of the elements in my xml file contains XHTML tags: And the xml text reader object that .NET provides, cannot read elements of an xml file that contain xhtml. The reader does not return the text, if it contains a <td> tag, or a <font> tag etc. Below is my pseudo code I use to get the
contents of the element.

XMLTextReader reader = newXMLTextReader();
lblDescription.Text = reader.ReadString() ; // the reader does not return anything if it contains xhtml

Any ideas of what to do? I definately need that xhtml stuff in the xml
file... Otherwise the label will contain just a big runon sentence, instead of formatted paragraphs.

ty
Jason Shohet

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

Jason Shohet <__******@yahoo.com> wrote:

Attached are all the files you'll need to see the problem in action

Do you really have to use ASP.NET to demonstrate the problem? I don't
have it set up at the moment, and it would be *much* easier to test and
change the code if you had it in a simple console app.

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