How to display XML string in IE - asp.net-mvc

I created a control that gets an xml string, I am trying to figure out how to display the xml content well-formatted in IE, instead of a plain string.

IE is natively able to display xml document, so maybe just an iframe would do the job.
Or, if your string contains line breaks and is indented, you can wrap it in <pre></pre> tags.

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Editing HTML by replacing text

I am trying to replace HTML text from one language to corresponding text in other language, without changing the markup and layout of the page. For parsing HTML I am using JSOUP Java library.
doc.title(MTClient.translate(doc.title()));
This would take up the title of the page and replace it with translated text string output received by MTClient.translate(Text To Be Translated). This is working fine and replacing the title.
But when I am doing the same on Elements of the HTML page, using the below code:
Elements Nodes = doc.children();
for(Element node : Nodes){
node.text(MTClient.translate(node.text()));
}
It is removing the whole layout of the page and only storing the translated text simply in the page.
I read the javadocs of JSOUP, which says:
public Element text(String text)
Set the text of this element. Any existing contents (text or elements) will be cleared.
And all the sub elements are removed.
I also tried HTMLPARSER lib in java, but it also doesn't seem to support this type of replacement.
How do i replace the text??
Thanks for help, in advance.
If you only want to modify the text, you should get the Element's textNodes() and set their text. TextNodes don't have child elements, so you won't be replacing them.
Elements nodes = doc.children();
for (Element node : nodes)
for (TextNode textNode : node.textNodes())
textNode.text(MTClient.translate(textNode.text()));

render html in a rich text box in active reports software

I have a string with basic html markup which I want to put into a rich textbox
string ab = #"<b> a b </b>"
I want it to render as it would appear in a browser ie:
a b
how can I do this in active reports 7? According to http://www.datadynamics.com/forums/77664/ShowPost.aspx, a richtextbox supports these tags. Do I have to specify a property to allow it to render html? How should I approach this?
Thanks,
Sam
More information (Update 8/11):
I'm binding the data from a database field - an oracle nclob. The field repeats within the detail section (with different information each time).
If I bind the field directly to a textbox or label it renders the string, but doesnt encode the html
<b> a b </b>
but it encode the string.
Solution Summary
Solution (as suggested by #activescott)
Bind rtx directly to the datafield
'Reformat' the text into html in
the script
public void detail_Format()
{
rtxBox.Html = rtxBox.Text;
}
result: renders the html field with some degree of html formatting
notes:
binding directly in the script doesnt work,
ie. rtxBox.Html = pt.Fields["CONT_ID"].ToString(); yields some wierd meta data string
the Datafield only binding approach doesn't work
(it will yield it as text)
there are some extra spacing that occurs with p tags. It may be worth regexing them out or somehow providing some formatting control.
The actual property you are looking for is the Html Property. You can also load a file into that control using the step-by-step walkthrough here.
I am assuming you are using Section Reports and not Page Reports.
To use HTML from the database in a bound report, you should be able to use the DataField property of the RichTextBox control (set it to the name of the corresponding Data field at design time). However, I noticed this "Render HTML tags in DB in ActiveReport pdf or HTML" article which kind of implies that doesn't work since it loads the HTML from a database programatically. One of the two should work.

How to get markitup editor, using markdown set, to send markdown instead of html

I'm using rails and have a markItUp editor in place, using the Markdown custom set. The only thing I can't figure out is how to get it to submit raw Markdown instead of converted html. I plan on storing both formats, but I haven't found anything capable of parsing html back to markdown. I've customized the markdown set set.js as we didn't want the entire set of formatting options. Here:
myMarkdownSettings = {
previewParserPath: '',
onShiftEnter: {keepDefault:false, openWith:'\n\n'},
markupSet: [
{name:'Bold', key:'B', openWith:'**', closeWith:'**'},
{name:'Italic', key:'I', openWith:'_', closeWith:'_'},
{name:'Bulleted List', openWith:'- ' },
{name:'Link', key:'L', openWith:'[', closeWith:']([![Url:!:http://]!] "[![Title]!]")', placeHolder:'Your text to link here...' }
]
}
And here's the onready code for the page where the markitup elements appear:
$.editable.addInputType('markitup', {
element : $.editable.types.textarea.element,
plugin : function(myMarkdownSettings, original) {
$('textarea', this).markItUp(myMarkdownSettings);
}
});
$('.editable').editable({type : 'markitup'});
This works, but it submits as html. I was trying to use wmd as there's an option for output which maintains the markdown text as is, but haven't been able to get that to fly. Thanks.
Assuming the textarea contains markdown formatted text, you should be able to grab the contents before form submit with $('.editable').text(), and store it in another hidden field, but you'd have to ensure that you get to the contents before markitup transforms them.
If you really just want to store markdown, you'd be better not to use markitup, and just leave it as simple markdown in a text view, then translate it yourself to html for display with one of the libraries available like rdiscount etc.

Textareas and unsafe content

I've got wiki style content which is sanitized and stored in another field of the db for output as html. The original body field I'm not sure how to deal with as when I santize it characters are escaped and don't display well in the textarea.
What are the dangers of unsafe content in textareas? I'm sure I read previously that downloading such textarea content with ajax is preferable but I'd rather not go down that route if not necessary.
all HTML tag are no safe. by example if you close the textarea, you can add all nez HTML tag or what you want like JS. So it's exactly like inside a non textarea tag.

French characters are not displaying correctly inside javascript grid

We have translated one of our pages to french and all the html within the page displays flawlessly. That said, there is a javascript table (ext js) and the accented characters are not displaying correctly. The page is encoded UTF-8 in the HTML meta tags, but when I look inside FireBug, I see the following:
Accept-Charset ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
I'm guessing the problem is related to the ISO-8859-1 having worked its way back in. Does anyone know why the page itself would display fine, but the text inside the javascript component wouldn't? Do you somehow specify the encoding separately for the javascript files?
The Accept-Charset tag gives a set of encodings that are accepted -- if all the data sent is encoded UTF-8, then don't worry about it.
Can you elaborate on exactly what is happening?
You say "javascript table" -- I presume you are constructing an HTML table in JS and placing it in the DOM? Please elaborate, especially w.r.t. any character conversions. Are you building HTML text or building with DOM elements with attributes?
Where does the JS get its data? If with AJAX, have you verified the Encoding for that page?
Does the JS use encode() or decode()? Those don't handle UTF-8 correctly.
EDIT:
Type the URL to the JS code in your browser, and look at "Page Info" to see its encoding. I'll bet it is ISO-8859-1, which would explain the header problems.
Next, check the encoding of the AJAX data. If it's dynamically created you can:
Enable "Show XMLHttpRequests" in FireBug's console,
Load on your base HTML page,
Open the FireBug console tab,
Expand the AJAX GET/POST request and open the Response sub-tab,
Check the Encoding for the data, and fix as needed.
BTW, I'm having similar problems and haven't entirely ironed out the issues (still not sure the source data isn't badly encoded).
It's possible that the ext. JS file strips out unrecognised characters as a security precaution.
The "Accept-Charset" header can be specified in a number of places, including as an attribute in certain HTML elements. Have you performed a search for Accept-Charset (case insensitive) in the offending file?

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