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Re: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)

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• Subject: Re: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial)
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 10:42:27 -0400
• References: <p04330107b9b2685a5a55@[192.168.254.4]><m4kqoukq2nadha8vf8ol2ac92s7vpi08dr@4...>

A hybrid or compromise that I have used (mostly in javascript) is to write a
function that returns a well-formed element as a string - for example,

function element(name,content)

Thus

var fragment=element('div','This is a div')
// returns "<div>This is a div</div>"

You can use this recursively and always get well-formed text out -

var frag2=element('div', element('div','This is a nested div'))
// returns <div><div>This is a nested div</div></div>

And of course you can concatenate to get siblings or mixed content.

This approach knows nothing about DTDs but it is convenient, well-formed,
and a lot better than printf.

Cheers,

Tom P

[Arjun Ray]
[[
Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...> wrote:
| At 9:40 AM -0700 9/21/02, Dare Obasanjo wrote:

|> Search for the string "InnerXml" in the text at
|> http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/9/14/19753/0994
|
| Thanks. Does this code work? If so, it's worse than I thought it was.
| I had assumed InnerXML worked with well-formed XML. It apparently
| doesn't. For example,
|
| channel.InnerXml  = channel.InnerXml + "\n<item>\n<title>" + diaryTitle +
|       "</title>\n<link>" + diaryLink + "</link>\n<description>" +
| diaryDesc + "</description>\n";
|
| Where's the end-tag for the item element? There's another case of
| this a little further on:
|
| channel.InnerXml  = channel.InnerXml + "\n" +
|        "<rss:item
xmlns:rdf=\"http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#\" " +
|        "xmlns:rss=\"http://purl.org/rss/1.0/\" rdf:about=\"" +
| diaryLink + "\" >\n" +
|        "<rss:title>" + diaryTitle + "</rss:title>\n<rss:link>" +
| diaryLink + "</rss:link>\n" +
|        "<rss:description>" + diaryDesc + "</rss:description>\n";
|
| This time it's the rss:item end-tag that's gone missing,

-sigh-

Did you really expect better?  Really, Elliotte, you have a big heart. :-)
]]

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