Parsing custom tag in XML node ??

[lightman]

Hi All,

I have a piece of HTML stored in a CDATA xml node, and would like a
way to provide the content-editor who's enters the text a friendly way
to specify a search query, something like:

<ROOT>
<bodytext><![[CDATA[this is a example of the <b>HTML</b> text.<br>
Click <searchbyname arg="john">Here</searchbyname> to
get John's search results, or click <searchbyID
arg="111">Here</searchbyID> to search by ID.
</bodytext>
</ROOT>

I figured that <searchbyname> and <searchbyID> are child elements of
<bodytext>, but I'm not sure how to do my substitutions, and then
reassemble back into a HTML string that I can output.

any ideas? or is there another way I could do this? I thought about
brute-force string.indexof() and string.replace(), but there's
probably a beter way.

Thanks
Lightman

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

lightman wrote:

I have a piece of HTML stored in a CDATA xml node, and would like a
way to provide the content-editor who's enters the text a friendly way
to specify a search query, something like:

<ROOT>
<bodytext><![[CDATA[this is a example of the <b>HTML</b> text.<br>
Click <searchbyname arg="john">Here</searchbyname> to
get John's search results, or click <searchbyID
arg="111">Here</searchbyID> to search by ID.
</bodytext>
</ROOT>
This is malformed XML. CDATA start tag is misspelled and end tag is
absent. Here is well-formed version:

<ROOT>
<bodytext><![CDATA[this is a example of the <b>HTML</b> text.<br>
Click <searchbyname arg="john">Here</searchbyname> to
get John's search results, or click <searchbyID
arg="111">Here</searchbyID> to search by ID.]]>
</bodytext>
</ROOT>
I figured that <searchbyname> and <searchbyID> are child elements of
<bodytext>, but I'm not sure how to do my substitutions, and then
reassemble back into a HTML string that I can output.

No elements in CDATA. CDATA means the content is just plain text. So to
process it use common text processing means (substring functions, regexp
etc), forget about XML facilities. Otherwise avoid CDATA.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

lightman wrote:

I have a piece of HTML stored in a CDATA xml node, and would like a
way to provide the content-editor who's enters the text a friendly way
to specify a search query, something like:

<ROOT>
<bodytext><![[CDATA[this is a example of the <b>HTML</b> text.<br>
Click <searchbyname arg="john">Here</searchbyname> to
get John's search results, or click <searchbyID
arg="111">Here</searchbyID> to search by ID.
</bodytext>
</ROOT>
This is malformed XML. CDATA start tag is misspelled and end tag is
absent. Here is well-formed version:

<ROOT>
<bodytext><![CDATA[this is a example of the <b>HTML</b> text.<br>
Click <searchbyname arg="john">Here</searchbyname> to
get John's search results, or click <searchbyID
arg="111">Here</searchbyID> to search by ID.]]>
</bodytext>
</ROOT>
I figured that <searchbyname> and <searchbyID> are child elements of
<bodytext>, but I'm not sure how to do my substitutions, and then
reassemble back into a HTML string that I can output.

No elements in CDATA. CDATA means the content is just plain text. So to
process it use common text processing means (substring functions, regexp
etc), forget about XML facilities. Otherwise avoid CDATA.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com