HTML in XML dumps

[Robert Brenstein]

>on 2/27/04 12:21 PM, Marcus Bointon at marcus at synchromedia.co.uk wrote:
>
>>  I have a database that contains HTML formatting in a text field. I've
>>  noticed that this data is disappearing when I export to XML and rebuild the
>>  DB from the dump. Does Valentina not cope with this combination? Do
>>  I/valentina need to do XML entity replacement on my HTML content?
>
>Frankly saying we never have consider such task.
>
>And I wonder why and how it remove your formatting
>
>--
>Best regards,
>Ruslan Zasukhin      [ I feel the need...the need for speed ]

I think the solution is not to remove the formatting but to encode 
the field so the HTML formatting does not confuse XML. The encoding 
can be done at the export/dump time or Marcus can store his fields 
already encoded.

I use the latter approach in my projects since it allows me to encode 
selectively only specific characters (I use a unix-like backslash 
encoding) thus keeping the text fully readable. But I also keep most 
of my html code in external template files which are emrged with 
content upon demand. This allows me to modify templates independently 
from page content.

Robert