Question on XML

[NickMalloy]

I am thinking about creating a website completely through XML and XSL. I am using MSSQL for my database and would be creating the XML document through ASP.NET. My question is that some of my database content contains HTML such as image tags and such. Is there anything I have to worry about when it comes to bringing the html stored in the database to XML?

 

[CubeE101]

EVERYTHING has to have an end tag...
Such As:
<br>
should be:
<br/>
And:
<img src="x.gif">
should be:
<img src="x.gif"/>
etc...

Html tends to let you get a little sloppy, but XML has NO Tolerance...

HTML will typically go into the XSL files...

you can summerize the page in the XML and XSL can convert it to HTML...

Such as... This XML:

<Picture>
  <URL>test.jpg</URL>
  <Link>somewhere.html</Link>
  <Alt>Error Loading Pic</Alt>
</Picture>

Could be displayed through XSL such as...

...
  <xsl:template match="Picture">
    <a href="[b]{Link}[/b]"><img src="[b]{URL}[/b]" alt="[b]{Alt}[/b]" /></a>
  </xsl:template>
...

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