| Re: Adding a CDATA section [message #173600 is a reply to message #173583] |
Wed, 20 April 2011 08:51   |
Thomas 'PointedEars'
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JustWondering wrote:
> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Adam Harvey wrote:
>>> JustWondering wrote:
>>>> What I'm expecting is:
>>>> <stocklist>
>>>> <item type="fruit">
>>>> <description><![CDATA[Apples are <b->yummy</b>]]></description>
>>>> </item>
>>>> <item type="vegetable">
>>>> </item></stocklist>
>>
>>> I'm not really sure why you'd expect that dash in <b->, but at any
>>> rate, running your code on a current PHP 5.3 build results in what I'd
>>> expect, which is:
>>
>>> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>>> <stockList>
>>> <item type="fruit">
>>> <description><![CDATA[Apples are <b>yummy</b>]]></description>
>>> </item>
>>> <item type="vegetable"/>
>>> </stockList>
>>
>>> What version of PHP are you running?
>>
>> PHP is not the issue here, but that the OP has not understood what XML is
>> (and how it is to be used), what a CDATA section is (that its content is
>> *not* parsed except for `]]>', and so cannot possibly display bold
>> because of <b>…</b> in it), and that Firebug's innerHTML-based Edit
>> feature is shaky at best with XML documents served as text/html.
>>
>> Something along
>>
>> header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');
>>
>> is missing after
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> but that would still not display anything of the markup in bold. (And
>> that is good so.)
>
> Perhaps you should read the post before making up assumptions about
> the OP.
I really do not have to make assumptions in this case. It is very obvious
that you do not know what you are doing.
> Where did I say that I'm expecting to see bold?
In your OP. Precisely:
>>> What I'm expecting to see is Apples are yummy, with yummy in bold.
> I am pointing to the generated XML code, not how the generated code is
> displayed.
Then you should have said so. XML is not (X)HTML; a `b' element has no
inherent meaning there. And when `<b>…</b>' is in a CDATA section, it does
not constitute an element at all.
> Why would I expect anything in a CDATA section to be displayed?
You should expect the content of a CDATA section to be displayed verbatim
because that is how it works. You are not expecting it because evidentially
you have not understood what a CDATA section is, and how XML works.
Please trim your quotes to the relevant minimum.
PointedEars
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