Including HTML Tags in XML Text

[Rick]

I am fairly new to XML, I have an XML document that holds configurations for
an ASP.NET application, within the configuration XML File
I have a line of text that will feed into a lable on a web form. I would
like to be able to include html breaks <BR> within the text.

Is this possible and if so, how is it done?

XML:
<WebText>
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here <BR>
Continue on with text in next line
</WebText>

Thanks in Advance,
Rick

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Rick wrote:

I am fairly new to XML, I have an XML document that holds configurations for
an ASP.NET application, within the configuration XML File
I have a line of text that will feed into a lable on a web form. I would
like to be able to include html breaks <BR> within the text.

Is this possible and if so, how is it done?

There are many ways. Including some obvious:
1. Use CDATA:
<WebText>
<![CDATA[
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here <BR>
Continue on with text in next line
]]>
</WebText>

2. Escape all < and & characters:
<WebText>
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here &lt;BR>
Continue on with text in next line
</WebText>

3. Use XHTML instead:
<WebText>
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here <BR/>
Continue on with text in next line
</WebText>
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Rick]

Thanks for the help, I should have thought of the obvious, but I believe
I'll use the CDATA.
"Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]" <oleg@NO!SPAM!PLEASEtkachenko.com> wrote in message
news:eY**************@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...

Rick wrote:

I am fairly new to XML, I have an XML document that holds configurations
for an ASP.NET application, within the configuration XML File
I have a line of text that will feed into a lable on a web form. I would
like to be able to include html breaks <BR> within the text.

Is this possible and if so, how is it done?

There are many ways. Including some obvious:
1. Use CDATA:
<WebText>
<![CDATA[
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here <BR>
Continue on with text in next line
]]>
</WebText>

2. Escape all < and & characters:
<WebText>
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here &lt;BR>
Continue on with text in next line
</WebText>

3. Use XHTML instead:
<WebText>
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here <BR/>
Continue on with text in next line
</WebText>
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Martin Honnen]

Rick wrote:

I should have thought of the obvious, but I believe
I'll use the CDATA.

If CDATA suits your needs then use it but be aware that if you ever
wanted to process the XML with XML tools like DOM or XSLT the whole HTML
markup is only seen as text without the structure the HTML elements define.
Thus if you want to process the HTML inside of the XML with XML tools
then it is much smarter to use XHTML inside of the XML e.g.

<WebText>
This Line of Text will show in Lable, Put a Break Here <br
xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" />
Continue on with text in next line
</WebText>

that way your content has structure which an XML parser or an XML tool
like DOM or XSLT sees and exposes to processing.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Rick wrote:

Thanks for the help, I should have thought of the obvious, but I believe
I'll use the CDATA.

And don't forget that CDATA section cannot contain "]]>" characters -
you have to replace them with "]]>]]><![CDATA[" or escape as ]]&lt;
Actually if you use XmlTextWriter or XmlDocument to build yoru XML, they
will take care of all this syntax stuff.

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