escaping HTML snippets in XML file

colm_c

I'm getting the output of another application (currently in XML) and parsing it to display on screen.

I can parse the XML pretty easily, but I can't seem to remember how to parse the HTML bits within the xml fields, it seems to fragment the html more than it should.

So there's the output:

<product>
   <title>Product title</title>
   <description>This is the description which uses <b>bold</b> and some <br> tags too</description>
</product>

Any ideas?

Laslo

<product>
   <title>Product title</title>
   <description><![CDATA[This is the description which uses <b>bold</b> and some <br> tags too]]></description>
</product>

colm_c

That was my first thought but, unfortunately that's not really an option - the application that's outputting this is built in Java and can't be changed, is there a way to insert these on the fly?

Eoin

It's been years since I did much with XML, but I don't suppose you could use an XSLT(?) document to define what fields in the XML doc can have cdata?

colm_c

Got it working in the end, the XML coming back had escaped the characters, but was fragmenting on the amperands, ended up checking the path and concatenating the fragments together.

Thanks for the help.