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July 13th, 2004, 06:57 PM

DZero

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HTML inside XML

Hi guys, i'm having a trouble here ... i'm a n00b about XML,
so, my question is, "is that possible to put HTML tags inside XML???" and if YES... HOW?

I'm testing some stuff for my band website, and then
i wanted to do the NEWS section in XML, but, i realized
that i'll need some links on the texts, and i have no idea
about how to do it in XML

here's my xml code::
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>


<BANDNEWS>

<BNEWS>
<DATE>07/10/2004</DATE>
<BNTEXT> sample text... sample text...</BNTEXT>
</BNEWS>

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is there any way to put any of these "sample text" as
LINK ??

thx a lot!

July 13th, 2004, 09:59 PM

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See this thread for two methods:
http://forums.devshed.com/showthread.php?t=126100

July 14th, 2004, 12:30 AM

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there might be smth wrong with my code... i couldn't do that.

i'll past my code here, so u'll have an idea of what i want to do.

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XML file (a kinda NEWS database)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>


<BANDNEWS>
<BNEWS>
<DATE>10/07/2004</DATE>
<TEXT>
HERE'S A SAMPLE TEXT 01
</TEXT>
</BNEWS>

<BNEWS>
<DATE>14/06/2004</DATE>
<TEXT>
HERE'S A SAMPLE TEXT 02
</TEXT>
</BNEWS>

</BANDNEWS>

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HTML+CSS FILE
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<html>
<body>

<xml id="bandanews" src="bandnews2004.xml"></xml>

<table>

<tbody>
<tr>
<td width="8" bordercolor="#000000">
<divalign="center">
<img src="img/seta.jpg" width="4" height="7">
</div>
</td>
<td colspan="2" bgcolor="#666666">
<span datafld="DATE">
</span>
</td>
</tr>
<tr>
<td colspan="2" bordercolor="#000000"> </td>
<td width="602" bordercolor="#000000">
<span datafld="TEXT"></span>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>

</table>

</body>
</html>

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I wanted to put a word as a link on the XML
like, when you click at "SAMPLE TEXT 01"
u'll go to another page in a new window
(if possible) and on the same window.

anyone can fix my code to do that.

thx a lot

July 14th, 2004, 07:03 AM

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Just a quick q... why aren't you using XSLT? This would be a piece of cake with it...

Miska

July 14th, 2004, 09:50 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Miska

Just a quick q... why aren't you using XSLT? This would be a piece of cake with it...

Miska

because i dunno XSLT ...

July 14th, 2004, 10:18 AM

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Try starting here:

http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/

July 14th, 2004, 10:29 AM

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i already tried there, but, i can't find any example of how to do this

July 15th, 2004, 01:42 AM

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just a few tags you might find worth looking at:

xsl:template
xsl:for-each
xsl:value-of

-M-

July 17th, 2004, 02:36 AM

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HTML links inside XML

Try this. I took the liberty of removing your tables. The CSS should do most of what you wanted to do without the bulk. Save the text to each of the named files, then open "bandnews2004.xml" in your browser.

[BEGIN XML FILE "bandnews2004.xml":]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="bandnews2004.xsl"?>

<BANDNEWS>

<BNEWS>
<DATE>10/07/2004</DATE>
<TEXT>HERE'S A SAMPLE TEXT 01</TEXT>
</BNEWS>

<BNEWS>
<DATE>14/06/2004</DATE>
<TEXT>HERE'S A SAMPLE TEXT 02
<a href="#">HERE'S A SAMPLE LINK</a>
HERE'S A SAMPLE TEXT 02
HERE'S A SAMPLE TEXT 02
</TEXT>
</BNEWS>

</BANDNEWS>

[END XML FILE "bandnews2004.xml"]

[BEGIN XSL FILE "bandnews2004.xsl"]

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
<xsl:stylesheet
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform" version="1.0">

<xsl:template match="/">
<html>

<head>
<title>Band News 2004</title>
<style>
.date { width: 602px; height: 2em; line-height: 2em; color: white; background: black; border: 1px black solid; }
img { padding: 0 5px 0 5px; }
.text { width: 602px; height: auto; border: 1px black solid; }
</style>
</head>

<body>
<xsl:for-each select="//BNEWS">
<xsl:sort select="DATE" />
<div class="date">
<img src="your_icon.gif" /> <xsl:value-of select="DATE" />
</div>
<div class="text"><xsl:copy-of select="TEXT" /></div>
</xsl:for-each>
</body>

</html>
</xsl:template>
</xsl:stylesheet>

[END XSL FILE "bandnews2004.xsl"]

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July 17th, 2004, 11:02 AM

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THANK YOU VERY MUCH!!!
that was exactly what i was looking for.!

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