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RE: On a more pleasant note

• From: "Barry Paul" <bpaul@w...>
• To: "Tim Bray" <tbray@t...>,"XMLDev list" <xml-dev@i...>
• Date: Fri, 17 Sep 1999 12:46:27 -0700

> PS: In the XML I'm sending out from the server, I am embedding some human
> readable text encoded, obviously enough, in HTML.  What would be 
> a good way
> to distinguish it from my own XML tags so that I can extract it and feed
> it to the HTML renderer?  Any suggestions?

Yep, three:

1. Use namespaces (seriously!)
2. Encode '<', '>', etc using entities
3. Enclose the HTML CDATA sections

Problems with each solution:

1. This is OK if you are sure that the HTML is valid and well formed
2. What else would you have to encode? (HTML entities?)
3. Maybe some whitespace issues

Seems like number 3 would be a good way to go.

Cheers,

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Barry

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