RE: parsing XML within HTML files

Arnold, Curt (Curt.Arnold@hyprotech.com)
Thu, 3 Sep 1998 16:15:29 -0600

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"Presenting XML" by Light discusses how to write HTML so that it is also
valid XML. Basically you have to do things like explicitly close your
paragraphs, i.e.

<p>
This is a paragraph. The following close paragraph tag is legal HTML
(and required for it to be legal XML) but no HTML authoring tool would
ever add it.
</p>

If that is tolerable, you could insert you special tags within the
document that you replace.

<p>
This is a <subst src="url of source">replace this</subst>
</p>

You wouldn't need to have a HTML DTD (but you could if you wanted).

However, given all that, if you aren't interested in extracting any
meaning from the XML (like the URL in the same), It would seem easier to
take the approach Microsoft did with VB 6 and just use a DIV tag within
your normal HTML stream and have your servlet scan and replace the
"<DIV></DIV>" blocks it recognizes.

-----Original Message-----
From: Weihong Xie [mailto:wxie@gmswireless.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 03, 1998 4:18 PM
To: Xml-Dev
Subject: parsing XML within HTML files

I posted this before and was returned by mail failure. Sorry if
duplicated.

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-- hi,

I am developing some servlet application and am looking at XML to see if I can use it to present dynamic information.

AlL I want to do is in normal HTML files, there will be some customized XML tags to mark the places where dynamic values will be inserted, so when the servlet serves those pages, it will provide those values but leave the HTML text alone. The question is how I can do this, do I need a DTD that defines HTML and my customized tags or is there any XML parsers understand HTML? I am new to XML, so any advice is welcome.

Thanks.

Weihong.

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