Can we use html tags in xml?

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• User-524191788 posted

  hi,

  Thanks for your time.

   i have created a small web application with XML. It is working fine but In this XML file, i want to add html tags in one of the column, named Content. And html tags  like: bold,italic,para and so....on.

   I hope this is clear.

  XML file is as follows:profile.xml

  xmlversion="1.0"encoding="utf-8" ?>

  <

  profiles>

  <

  useruser_Id="1" name="Name1"designation="Webdeveloper" content="Hi how are you doing? I want to make some text bold and some text italic and i'd want to insert image here in this content and vice versa. thanks for bearing">user>

  <

  useruser_Id="2"name="Name2" designation="Web Designer and webdeveloper"content="Hi how are you doing? I want to make some text bold and some text italic and i'd want to insert image here in this content and vice versa. thanks for bearing">user>

  <

  useruser_Id="3" name="Name3"designation="Webdeveloper" content="Hi how are you doing? I want to make some text bold and some text italic and i'd want to insert image here in this content and vice versa. thanks for bearing">user>

  <

  useruser_Id="4"name="Name4" designation="Graphic Designer"content="Hi how are you doing? I want to make some text bold and some text italic and i'd want to insert image here in this content and vice versa. thanks for bearing">user>

  profiles>

  and default.aspx as follows

  <%

  @ PageLanguage="VB"AutoEventWireup="false"CodeFile="Default.aspx.vb" Inherits="_Default" %>

  DOCTYPE htmlPUBLIC"-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

  <

  htmlxmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

  <

  head runat="server"> <title>Untitled Pagetitle>

  head>

  <

  body> <formid="form1"runat="server"> <div> <asp:XmlDataSourceID="XmlDataSource1" runat="server"DataFile="~/App_Data/Profile.xml" XPath='/profiles/user'>asp:XmlDataSource> <asp:DataListID="DataList1" runat="server"Style=""DataSourceID="XmlDatasource1"> <ItemTemplate> <tablewidth="780px"style="background:#999933; border:1px;"> <tr> <tdstyle="width:20%; background-color:White">User IDtd><tdstyle="width:20%;background-color:White">User Nametd><tdstyle="width:60%; background-color:White">Contenttd>tr> <tr><td><%# Eval("user_Id") %>td><td><%# Eval("name") %>td><td><%#Eval("content")%>td>tr> table> ItemTemplate> asp:DataList>div> form>

  body>

  html>

  thanks once again.

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• User-512755392 posted

  Thanks for your infomation.

  You have to decode html tag before write it to Response.

  Here is my tested code(I converted from C# to VB):

  Imports System
  Imports System.Data
  Imports System.Configuration
  Imports System.Collections
  Imports System.Web
  Imports System.Web.Security
  Imports System.Web.UI
  Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls
  Imports System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts
  Imports System.Web.UI.HtmlControls
  Imports System.Xml
  Imports System.Xml.Xsl
  Imports System.Xml.XPath
  Imports System.IO
  Public Class xml_xslt_display
      Inherits System.Web.UI.Page
      
      Protected Sub Page_Load(ByVal sender As Object, ByVal e As EventArgs)
          Dim output As String = ""
          Dim msXml As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream
          Dim writer As XmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter(msXml, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8)
          Try 
              Response.Clear
              Dim xml_p As String = "test57.xml"  
              Dim xslt_p As String = "xslt57.xsl"
              Dim xmlPath As String = Server.MapPath(xml_p)
              Dim xslPath As String = Server.MapPath(xslt_p)
              'Instantiate the XPathDocument Class
              Dim doc As XPathDocument = New XPathDocument(xmlPath)
              'Instantiate the XslTransform Class
              Dim transform As XslCompiledTransform = New XslCompiledTransform
              transform.Load(xslPath)
              transform.Transform(doc, Nothing, writer)
              msXml.Position = 0
              Dim xmlReader As XmlReader = XmlReader.Create(msXml)
              
              While xmlReader.Read
                  output = xmlReader.ReadOuterXml
                  
              End While
              Response.Write(Server.HtmlDecode(output))
              Response.End
              xmlReader.Close
          Finally
              msXml.Close
              writer.Flush
              writer.Close
          End Try
      End Sub
  End Class
  
  

   

  I transform xml with xslt manually instead of using XML Control.

  • Marked as answer by Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM

• User-524191788 posted

  HI,

  I appreciate your work, thanks.

  I've got another way also in very very short "one line code". I think you might be knowing this.

  in XSLT file we have to add this code:       disable-output-escaping="yes"/>      where we want to add xhtml source code in element of XML file.

  I hope it is clear.

  Thank you All

  • Marked as answer by Anonymous Thursday, October 7, 2021 12:00 AM

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