CODEWITHSUNDEEP
htmlxml
newbie
newbie

Reputation: 24635

Is it possible to insert HTML content in XML document?

I need to insert HTML content into an XML document, is this possible or should HTML content be, for example, encoded in BASE64 or with something else like that?

Upvotes: 95

Views: 154574

Answers (5)

user15089146
user15089146

Reputation:

Just put the html tags with there content and add the xmlns attribute with quotes after the equals and in between the quotes is http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml

Upvotes: 0

Pablo Santa Cruz
Pablo Santa Cruz

Reputation: 181280

You can include HTML content. One possibility is encoding it in BASE64 as you have mentioned.

Another might be using CDATA tags.

Example using CDATA:

<xml>
    <title>Your HTML title</title>
    <htmlData><![CDATA[<html>
        <head>
            <script/>
        </head>
        <body>
        Your HTML's body
        </body>
        </html>
     ]]>
    </htmlData>
</xml>

Please note:

CDATA's opening character sequence: <![CDATA[

CDATA's closing character sequence: ]]>

Upvotes: 169

loyola
loyola

Reputation: 4062

Please see this.

Text inside a CDATA section will be ignored by the parser.

http://www.w3schools.com/xml/dom_cdatasection.asp

This is will help you to understand the basics about XML

Upvotes: 2

zzzzBov
zzzzBov

Reputation: 179046

so long as your html content doesn't need to contain a CDATA element, you can contain the HTML in a CDATA element, otherwise you'll have to escape the XML entities.

<element><![CDATA[<p>your html here</p>]]></element>

VS

<element>&lt;p&gt;your html here&lt;/p&gt;</element>

Upvotes: 28

Rich
Rich

Reputation: 2096

The purpose of BASE64 encoding is to take binary data and be able to persist that to a string. That benefit comes at a cost, an increase in the size of the result (I think it's a 4 to 3 ratio). There are two solutions. If you know the data will be well formed XML, include it directly. The other, an better option, is to include the HTML in a CDATA section within an element within the XML.

Upvotes: 9

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