HTML tags in XML

[Devin Asay]

Hi Folks,

Is it possible to store html styled text in an xml document and then  
successfully retrieve the text with html markup intact?

I'm working on an application where I need to save styled text in an  
XML document. I can successfully insert the htmlText of the styled  
field into the xml document so I end up with a node that looks like  
this:

<comments>
Here are my comments.
Some of the text is colored <font color="#FF0000">red</font> &  
<font color="#0000FF">blue</font>
</comments>

However, when I read this node in with the revXMLNodeContents()  
function the html tags are stripped out and all I get is naked text.  
Here's a code snippet:

     put revXMLNodeContents(vSessionTreeID,vCurrentComment) into  
tCommentTxt
     set the htmlText of fld "comments" of cd theCard of stack  
"ClipData" to tCommentTxt

When I examine the tCommentTxt variable in the variable watcher I see:

Here are my comments.
Some of the text is colored red & blue

Notice that it correctly rendered the ampersand entity. But the  
formatting is gone.

Is there a way to do this? Will I have to resort to saving the  
RTFtext in the xml node or something like that?

Devin

Devin Asay
Humanities Technology and Research Support Center
Brigham Young University