XML DOM: XML/XHTML inside a text node

Roman Suzi rnd at onego.ru
Thu Nov 3 01:07:02 EST 2005


On Thu, 2 Nov 2005 noahlt at gmail.com wrote:

> In my program, I get input from the user and insert it into an XHTML
> document.  Sometimes, this input will contain XHTML, but since I'm
> inserting it as a text node, xml.dom.minidom escapes the angle brackets
> ('<' becomes '<', '>' becomes '>').  I want to be able to
> override this behavior cleanly.  I know I could pipe the input through
> a SAX parser and create nodes to insert into the tree, but that seems
> kind of messy.  Is there a better way?

What about parsing the input into XML first? Is there any point in including
unescaped code into XML document unless it is XML itself?


> Thanks.
>
>

Sincerely yours, Roman Suzi
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