XML newbie: How do you put a hyperlink in the XML file here? 1

[ColonelBlue]

XML newbie: How do you put a hyperlink in the XML text here?

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<inventors>
<person>
<name>Thomas Edison</name>
<comment>Inventor of many things such as the incandescent lightbulb.</comment>
</person>
<person>
<name>Doug Engelbart</name>
<comment>Invented the mouse at the Stanford Research Institute</comment>
</person>
</inventors>

Thank you!

 

[chiph]

You mean, something like this?
[ignore]
<name>&lt;a href=&quot;

http://www.thomasedison.com/&quot;&gt;Thomas

Edison&lt;/a&gt;</name>
[/ignore]

When storing certain values in XML that are used by XML itself, you must escape them by replacing them with their entity representations:

&    &
'    '
"    "
<    &lt;
>    &gt;

Chip H.

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[ColonelBlue]

Thank you Chip,

But why won't it turn into a hyperlink?
It literally comes out as
<A href="

http://://www.thomasedison.com"</A>

and not as a link.


Please help?

 

[chiph]

It depends on how you're displaying the XML. If you're just pointing Internet Explorer to the .xml file, you'll get what you saw. If you want it to show up as a hyperlink, you'll need to display the element inside an ASP page or other HTTP type output.

Chip H.


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If you want to get the best response to a question, please read FAQ222-2244 first

 

[ColonelBlue]

Thank you.