Re: NEED HELP, WANT TO HAVE XML TAGS AND COLOR

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
The short answer is that XML is intended to contain data and not present it.


If you want to display XML data in a web browser, you would normally use
XSLT to extract the data and put HTML tags around it for
formatting(typically you wouldn't display the element name tags (eg
<paragraph>) in the output).

If you need to display the XML in some type of print medium, you would want
to use XSL formatting objects or XSL-FO. The major web browsers don't
natively support XSL-FO yet but should in a version or two. XSL-FO is
primarily used for pdf generation right now.

If all you want to do is have something that looks like XML but is color
coded in a web browser, you can use the predefined entity references in your
HTML like this:

&lt;paragraph&gt;<font color = red>hello world</font>&lt;/paragraph&gt;

Please realize that this is not really XML, just a representation of it in
HTML (programmers have to be sticklers for details).

-----Original Message-----
From: James Knight [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: Sunday, June 22, 2003 7:33 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: NEED HELP, WANT TO HAVE XML TAGS AND COLOR


    In internet explorer.  I can view an xml file in a .xml format.
My question is.  Say, I have <paragraph>hello world</paragraph>.
But, I want to have hello world to have say the color red.  How can I
do that in an xml file.  I want to be able to have the tags there at
the same time make the "hello world" red.  I can do it in html, but
then I won't have the <paragraph></paragraph> tags there.  I want to
be able to have the tags and make the text red.  Can anyone tell me
how you can do that?  And if not, why you can't do that?  My first
guess is that I would need to write a plug-in to have that feature.

Thanks,




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