html part inside xml

RoeZ · November 28th, 2007, 03:25 AM

Hi, i am trying to put a peace of xhtml inside xml for an ajax application. The problem i have is that my server script (php) sees the xhtml inside the xml as other xml. I think i need to wrap the xhtml node inside a CDATA tag but i cant seem to find out how. My xhtml gets generated by a xsl template. I convert one tag of the source into some xhtml like so :

Code:

<xsl:template match="status">
    <xsl:variable name="translations" select="$lang.vote/translations/info[lang($language)]" />
    <xsl:variable name="status" select="." />
    <xsl:variable name="message" select="$translations/status[@code=$status]" />
    <xsl:copy>
        <xsl:call-template name="statusText">
            <xsl:with-param name="status">
                <xsl:value-of select="$status" />
            </xsl:with-param>
            <xsl:with-param name="message">
                <xsl:value-of select="$message" />
            </xsl:with-param>
        </xsl:call-template>
    </xsl:copy>
</xsl:template>

i tried to add cdata-section-elements="status" to my xsl:output tag but that didn't do anything. I think i can put the cdata in my statusText template but that template also gets used by pages that don't use ajax. Any help would be apreciated. P.S. What i am trying to do is convert my xml to json, i found an xsl stylesheet that converts xml to json, but there i also had the same problem, so now i am trying to retrieve the xml in php and then use in php convert the xml to an array and then json_encode it, if this is isn't logical please give me an alternative :)

joefawcett · November 28th, 2007, 05:02 AM

I'd advise against trying to put xhtml inside another XML document as CDATA, it will lead to problems down the line. What exactly is the problem that you're experiencing?

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Joe (Microsoft MVP - XML)

RoeZ · November 28th, 2007, 06:50 AM

well, i am trying to make an ajax page where i get the following xml: <status>1</status>. I want to convert the 1 to the following: <p style="#0000FF">success</p>. After that i want to output json so that my ajax.js can easily address the html to a div, if you know how to this an other way please advise me

RoeZ · November 28th, 2007, 08:18 AM

my problem is kinda solved, i now use xml2json from google code to transform my xml into json, i now only send status and message (no html) through json and use the javascript to add the html, i think this will work for me, think xhtml in xml is indeed not such a good idee :)