How to output XML as HTML nicely..

["Pugh, Eric" <EP...@MuseumCompany.com>]

Hi all,

I have a .vm file that I want to output some XML on the page in a table of
other data.  Obviously, if I output my raw XML, it doesn't show up, because
of the < and > tags...  What have people done to output XML nicely?  I would
love it if I could take my very compact machine readable XML with no returns
or spaces, and convert it to nice pretty XML with returns and
indentations...

Slapping the XML in a textarea is a plain, ugly, but workable method, I am
looking for something better!

Eric

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Re: How to output XML as HTML nicely..

[Matthew Koranda <ma...@orkan.no>]

I'm a new user so I don't quite know the flow of the programming yet but
couldn't you stream the XML through a function that replaces the the < and >
with the HTML equivilants &lt; and &gt; and then place the whole thing
between <pre> tags?

I guess to format the XML 'nicely' you could make the function add a
carriage return after each opening tag along with a tab, the next opening
tag would get a carriage return along with two tabs (say tabAmount + 1),
etc. Each closing tag would get a carriage return and remove a tab
(tabAmount - 1)

Does this help?

Matt
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From: Pugh, Eric <EP...@MuseumCompany.com>
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Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2002 10:56 PM
Subject: How to output XML as HTML nicely..


> Hi all,
>
> I have a .vm file that I want to output some XML on the page in a table of
> other data.  Obviously, if I output my raw XML, it doesn't show up,
because
> of the < and > tags...  What have people done to output XML nicely?  I
would
> love it if I could take my very compact machine readable XML with no
returns
> or spaces, and convert it to nice pretty XML with returns and
> indentations...
>
> Slapping the XML in a textarea is a plain, ugly, but workable method, I am
> looking for something better!
>
> Eric
>
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