XmlDataSource and embeded HTML within your XML data

[Guest]

Hi,

I am attempting to right a news scroller control that is driven by and XML
file. The way I have it set up is:

<News>
<Item Title="sometitle">
html content goes here
</Item>
</News>

My hope was to be able to put the html for each news post in the middle of
the Item elememts and then fetch those using an aspataList. Well everything
works except that I loose my html tags. I get all the text but don't get
links, formating, etc...

I am using <%#XPath(".") %> to fetch the html content from the Xml in my
DataList control. Is there a way to have the html tags make it to the browser
using this setup?

Thanks,

Ryan

 

[Laurent Bugnion]

Hi,

Hi,

I am attempting to right a news scroller control that is driven by and XML
file. The way I have it set up is:

<News>
<Item Title="sometitle">
html content goes here
</Item>
</News>

My hope was to be able to put the html for each news post in the middle of
the Item elememts and then fetch those using an aspataList. Well everything
works except that I loose my html tags. I get all the text but don't get
links, formating, etc...

I am using <%#XPath(".") %> to fetch the html content from the Xml in my
DataList control. Is there a way to have the html tags make it to the browser
using this setup?

Thanks,

Ryan

I think that you need a CDATA section.
http://www.w3schools.com/xml/xml_cdata.asp

HTH,
Laurent

 

[Walter Wang [MSFT]]

Thanks Laurent for your input.

Hi Ryan,

I agree with Laurent that you will need a CDATA section to store the HTML
content. Please feel free to post here if you need more help and anything
is unclear.


Regards,
Walter Wang
Microsoft Online Community Support

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