dynamic xhtml with xquery

[Adam Retter]

No worries, if it happens that its a more generic XQuery question
please do post back here. Some example code to see how your doing what
your doing would help as well.


2009/7/10 Gary Lewis <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>:
> Hi Adam - It did not occur to me that it might be related to zorba.
> I'll write their mailing list. Thanks. ... Gary
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 10, 2009 at 1:32 PM, Adam Retter<http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk> wrote:
>> It sounds like you have some sort of text/xml serialization issue,
>> your enquiry sounds quite specific to Zorba, have you tried their
>> mailing list yet?
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/7/10 Gary Lewis <http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk>:
>>> I'm stuck on a problem that must occur frequently, yet lots of
>>> reading, google searches, and xquery experimentation have not
>>> yet provided a solution. I'm writing in hopes that someone can point
>>> me to an faq or similar info.
>>>
>>> Here's the situation. I'd like to use xquery to write dynamic xhtml
>>> (ie, to write xhtml on-the-fly that can be viewed in a browser without
>>> additional editing).
>>>
>>> I started with a small project involving rss, using zorba's xquery
>>> REST functionality and GET to access the rss (returned as xml). I then
>>> wrote an xquery to serialize the xml and return xhtml. No problems
>>> when displayed in a browser (Firefox) ... except for special
>>> characters. As you'd expect, the GET returns angle brackets as &lt;
>>> and &gt; and since the rss contains many href links there
>>> are many of these &lt; and &gt; substitutions. The browser renders
>>> them correctly as > and < but, naturally, the resulting href is
>>> seen as text and not as a link.
>>>
>>> I've tried lots of different possible solutions, all of which I
>>> realize now were silly although useful for learning what not to do.
>>>
>>> Any help would be much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Gary Lewis
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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