XPathNavigator ignoring embedded tags

[David]

I'm using an XPathNodeIterator to select an element in an XML document that
contains text I am going to put in a label on an aspx page.

I want to be able to include HTML tags in the text read from the XML
document, but the XPathNodeIterator.Current.Value property seems to ignore
any tags. The text inside the tags is included, but the tags themselves are
not. Is this possible or
is there something else I need to do?

<root>
<home_page_quote>
This is a <b>test</b> for <i>fomatting</i>.
</home_page_quote>
</root>

XPathDocument xmlDoc = new XPathDocument(Server.MapPath("") + "\\Pages.xml");
XPathNavigator xmlNav = xmlDoc.CreateNavigator();
XPathNodeIterator xmlIt = xmlNav.Select("/root/home_page_quote");
xmlIt.MoveNext();
Label1.Text = xmlIt.Current.Value(); // Does not have the <b> or <i> tags
included.

[Martin Honnen]

David wrote:

<root>
<home_page_quote>
This is a <b>test</b> for <i>fomatting</i>.
</home_page_quote>
</root>

XPathDocument xmlDoc = new XPathDocument(Server.MapPath("") + "\\Pages.xml");
XPathNavigator xmlNav = xmlDoc.CreateNavigator();
XPathNodeIterator xmlIt = xmlNav.Select("/root/home_page_quote");
xmlIt.MoveNext();
Label1.Text = xmlIt.Current.Value(); // Does not have the <b> or <i> tags
included.

The string value of an element node is the concatenation of the text
content of all child nodes.
Getting the markup is not supported directly in .NET 1.0 and 1.1, in 2.0
you can use
xmlIt.Current.InnerXml
If you want to use InnerXml in .NET 1.0 and 1.1 then you could switch
from XPathDocument to XmlDocument e.g. use code alike
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(Server.MapPath(@"/Pages.xml"));
XmlElement element =
xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("/root/home_page_quote") as XmlElement;
if (element != null) {
Label1.Text = element.InnerXml;
}

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[David]

Thank you so much. I was wondering why there was no InnerXml property on
XPathNodeIterator.Current. You're solution works great!

"Martin Honnen" wrote:

The string value of an element node is the concatenation of the text
content of all child nodes.
Getting the markup is not supported directly in .NET 1.0 and 1.1, in 2.0
you can use
xmlIt.Current.InnerXml
If you want to use InnerXml in .NET 1.0 and 1.1 then you could switch
from XPathDocument to XmlDocument e.g. use code alike
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.Load(Server.MapPath(@"/Pages.xml"));
XmlElement element =
xmlDocument.SelectSingleNode("/root/home_page_quote") as XmlElement;
if (element != null) {
Label1.Text = element.InnerXml;
}

--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Pascal Schmitt]

Hello!

I'm using an XPathNodeIterator to select an element in an XML document that
contains text I am going to put in a label on an aspx page.

I want to be able to include HTML tags in the text read from the XML
document, but the XPathNodeIterator.Current.Value property seems to ignore
any tags. The text inside the tags is included, but the tags themselves are
not. Is this possible or
is there something else I need to do?

<root>
<home_page_quote>
This is a <b>test</b> for <i>fomatting</i>.
</home_page_quote>
</root>

Another solution is to put your HTML into a CDATA-Section (if you just
want to copy the data into a template, this should be enough):

<root>
<home_page_quote><![CDATA[
This is a <b>test</b> for <i>formatting</i>.
]]></home_page_quote>
</root>
--
Pascal Schmitt

[Chris Lovett]

This will perform better if you can do it since it doesn't have to parse the
contents of the CDATA as a bunch of text and XML elements, then copy all
that out with InnerXml.

"Pascal Schmitt" <ne*******@cebra.nu> wrote in message
news:O9**************@TK2MSFTNGP14.phx.gbl...

Hello!

I'm using an XPathNodeIterator to select an element in an XML document
that contains text I am going to put in a label on an aspx page. I want
to be able to include HTML tags in the text read from the XML document,
but the XPathNodeIterator.Current.Value property seems to ignore any
tags. The text inside the tags is included, but the tags themselves are
not. Is this possible or is there something else I need to do?

<root>
<home_page_quote>
This is a <b>test</b> for <i>fomatting</i>.
</home_page_quote>
</root>

Another solution is to put your HTML into a CDATA-Section (if you just
want to copy the data into a template, this should be enough):

<root>
<home_page_quote><![CDATA[
This is a <b>test</b> for <i>formatting</i>.
]]></home_page_quote>
</root>
--
Pascal Schmitt