Hi guys,
Sorry for the cross-post but I got no response in the asp.net newsgroup.
I am trying to develop a mini e-learning application where the user provides
content for each page. Eventually, I'd like to shift to using templates but
at the moment the users is just entering content using html. Whats the best
way to allow the user to do this and whats the best way of ensuring the html
is valid before I store it in my database / xml document?
Cheers,
Peter Hardy
3  1552 
The best way (and user-friendly too!) is to provide the user with an HTML
editor.
HTML is very lax and so everything goes. If you insist on users entering
markup, you may want to user XHTML 1.1 instead of HTML and validate the
input against http://www.w3.org/TR/2001/PR-xhtml11...#a_xhtml11_dtd
Hope this helps,
Mujtaba.
"Peter Hardy" <pe**@nospam.co m> wrote in message
news:uS******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP15.phx.gbl... Hi guys,
Sorry for the cross-post but I got no response in the asp.net newsgroup.
I am trying to develop a mini e-learning application where the user
provides content for each page. Eventually, I'd like to shift to using templates
but at the moment the users is just entering content using html. Whats the
best way to allow the user to do this and whats the best way of ensuring the
html is valid before I store it in my database / xml document?
Cheers,
Peter Hardy
If the HTML that's imput is simple enough then you can write code to
walk the HTML DOM with Chris Lovett's SgmlReader [0]. That class will
also perform HTML to XHTML conversion [1].
HTH,
Christoph Schittko
MVP XML http://weblogs.asp.net/cschittko
[0] http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...x?SampleGuid=B
90FDDCE-E60D-43F8-A5C4-C3BD760564BC
[1] http://eggheadcafe.com/articles/20030317.asp -----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hardy [mailto:pe**@nos pam.com]
Posted At: Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:28 PM
Posted To: microsoft.publi c.dotnet.xml
Conversation: ensuring html is valid before storing it
Subject: ensuring html is valid before storing it
Hi guys,
Sorry for the cross-post but I got no response in the asp.net
newsgroup.
I am trying to develop a mini e-learning application where the user
provides
content for each page. Eventually, I'd like to shift to using
templates but
at the moment the users is just entering content using html. Whats the
best
way to allow the user to do this and whats the best way of ensuring
the html
is valid before I store it in my database / xml document?
Cheers,
Peter Hardy
Thanks for the advice guys. I bit the bullet in the end and bought the R.A.D
Editoe component whch allows users to create Xhtml. It's a very impressive
component and certainly worth a look.
Peter
"Christoph Schittko [MVP]" <IN**********@a ustin.rr.com> wrote in message
news:#3******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP09.phx.gbl... If the HTML that's imput is simple enough then you can write code to
walk the HTML DOM with Chris Lovett's SgmlReader [0]. That class will
also perform HTML to XHTML conversion [1].
HTH,
Christoph Schittko
MVP XML
http://weblogs.asp.net/cschittko
[0]
http://www.gotdotnet.com/Community/U...x?SampleGuid=B
90FDDCE-E60D-43F8-A5C4-C3BD760564BC
[1] http://eggheadcafe.com/articles/20030317.asp
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Hardy [mailto:pe**@nos pam.com]
Posted At: Thursday, December 30, 2004 12:28 PM
Posted To: microsoft.publi c.dotnet.xml
Conversation: ensuring html is valid before storing it
Subject: ensuring html is valid before storing it
Hi guys,
Sorry for the cross-post but I got no response in the asp.net
newsgroup.
I am trying to develop a mini e-learning application where the user
provides
content for each page. Eventually, I'd like to shift to using
templates but
at the moment the users is just entering content using html. Whats the
best
way to allow the user to do this and whats the best way of ensuring
the html
is valid before I store it in my database / xml document?
Cheers,
Peter Hardy
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