Reading ASP.NET into XML DOM

[Ahmed]

Hi,

i wanted to know if it is possible to easily read an
asp.net file into an xml tree.

the only major issues i found were:

1-asp: namespace not defined
2-<%@ ...

now the first issue is easy to solve (you just add a
definition for the namespace in the file,

but the second issue is bothering me, becasue it seems the
<%@ decleration for defining some default values/
scripting language/ is not correct xml.

so, short of implementing my own xml reader, is there
something that i can do?

Thanks

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Ahmed wrote:

i wanted to know if it is possible to easily read an
asp.net file into an xml tree.

the only major issues i found were:

1-asp: namespace not defined
2-<%@ ...

now the first issue is easy to solve (you just add a
definition for the namespace in the file,

but the second issue is bothering me, becasue it seems the
<%@ decleration for defining some default values/
scripting language/ is not correct xml.

so, short of implementing my own xml reader, is there
something that i can do?

It's not XML so it can't be parsed by XML parser. You can make it XML
with some text preprocessing - replace <%@ with something XML friendly,
add namespace, fix unclosed HTML tags (you can use SgmlReader for the
latter problem) , etc.

PS. May I ask you - why do you want to load ASP.NET page as XML?
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Ahmed]

Seems like SgmlReader will be a good option.

I wanted to do so so that i can do some manipulations of
the asp file. You know edit content and such.

I will Read more about the SgmlReader as it seems it will
eb better becasue it is more flexible. and might even Fix
malformated asp/html files.

Thanks for the suggestion.

-----Original Message-----
Ahmed wrote:

i wanted to know if it is possible to easily read an
asp.net file into an xml tree.

the only major issues i found were:

1-asp: namespace not defined
2-<%@ ...

now the first issue is easy to solve (you just add a
definition for the namespace in the file,

but the second issue is bothering me, becasue it seems the <%@ decleration for defining some default values/
scripting language/ is not correct xml.

so, short of implementing my own xml reader, is there
something that i can do?
It's not XML so it can't be parsed by XML parser. You can

make it XMLwith some text preprocessing - replace <%@ with something XML friendly,add namespace, fix unclosed HTML tags (you can use SgmlReader for thelatter problem) , etc.

PS. May I ask you - why do you want to load ASP.NET page as XML?--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com
.