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I have a server running PHP on linux. For a website, I want to have the
webdocuments stored in XML, then parsed by PHP code to add the
appropriate titles, headers, menus, etc.

So, I want to embed some HTML into XML. Can I do this? If so, what
functions do I use to parse this? Below is an example XML doc.

<xml>
<title>Document Title</title>
<menu level="2">
<item>Home</item>
<item>Products</item>
</menu>
<content>
<p>
Now introduction, our <B>NEW</B> product line!
</content>
</xml>


The php will parse title and menu easily... but how i can i get it to
return 'content' as a string which includes all that HTML?

Any help deeply appreciated.

On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:12:37 -0400, Isaac Gerg
<> wrote:

>So, I want to embed some HTML into XML. Can I do this?

Yes. There are several ways to do it. You will find it useful to study
RSS, which had to address a similar problem (unfortunately not
particularly well). There's an interesting overview of it here
http://diveintomark.org/archives/200...compatible-rss
You can probably even find PHP code to help you do this, by looking at
RSS tools

If you want to embed HTML, then you have two main options; encoding
and CDATA. Encoding is often simpler.

[...]
<content>
&lt;p&gt;
Now introduction, our &lt;B&gt;NEW&lt;/B&gt; product line!
</content>
[...]

Note that encoding the HTML entity reference "&lt;" will need to
appear as "&amp;lt;"


or as CDATA
[...]
<content><![CDATA[
<p>
Now introduction, our <B>NEW</B> product line!
]]></content>
[...]

Note that the sequence ]]> in your HTML (an embedded CDATA section)
will need some special handling too.



If you can abandon HTML in favour of XHTML though, there's a much
better solution available; namespacing. If you control the HTML part
of the process yourself, I'd see this as a good reason to switch to
XHTML.

--
Smert' spamionam

I choose to use CDATA for those intersted. See http://www.gergltd.com

Isaac

Andy Dingley wrote:

> On Tue, 05 Oct 2004 12:12:37 -0400, Isaac Gerg
> <> wrote:
>
>
>>So, I want to embed some HTML into XML. Can I do this?
>
>
> Yes. There are several ways to do it. You will find it useful to study
> RSS, which had to address a similar problem (unfortunately not
> particularly well). There's an interesting overview of it here
> http://diveintomark.org/archives/200...compatible-rss
> You can probably even find PHP code to help you do this, by looking at
> RSS tools
>
> If you want to embed HTML, then you have two main options; encoding
> and CDATA. Encoding is often simpler.
>
> [...]
> <content>
> &lt;p&gt;
> Now introduction, our &lt;B&gt;NEW&lt;/B&gt; product line!
> </content>
> [...]
>
> Note that encoding the HTML entity reference "&lt;" will need to
> appear as "&amp;lt;"
>
>
> or as CDATA
> [...]
> <content><![CDATA[
> <p>
> Now introduction, our <B>NEW</B> product line!
> ]]></content>
> [...]
>
> Note that the sequence ]]> in your HTML (an embedded CDATA section)
> will need some special handling too.
>
>
>
> If you can abandon HTML in favour of XHTML though, there's a much
> better solution available; namespacing. If you control the HTML part
> of the process yourself, I'd see this as a good reason to switch to
> XHTML.
>