XHTML validation

[Syedur]

Okay, I got a simple question about XHTML validation. If I code something on a webpage and it has no error on XHTML 1.0 on tags and everything else but it will throw errors because of the contents that may contain special characters like... '/"/&/</>/%/ those XHTML requires you to do it with * and such, right? But, what if the content is dynamic and it is being generated via something else; server side and such. what do I do then?

Some pages will be XHTML 1.0 validated; some won't.

Thanks.

[Abhi]

That is a prob w/ xhtml. & (& nbsp is such a pain..

You could you a function to change the commonly used characters into their long forms and then send the output to the client...

[Syedur]

<blockquote id="quote"><span class="smalltext" id="quote">quote:<hr id="quote">Originally posted by Abhi

That is a prob w/ xhtml. & (& nbsp is such a pain..

You could you a function to change the commonly used characters into their long forms and then send the output to the client...
<hr id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></span id="quote">

do you have one for PHP? or anyone else?

[Abhi]

something like this:

<%
function format(str) {
return String( str ).split('&').join('*');
}


while( !rs.eof ) {
Response.Write( format( rs("sLog").value ) );
rs.movenext();
}
%>

[Abhi]

ok the space in the join is a & nbsp;

[Tim Scarfe]

You could just use HTML.

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[Chris]

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[hzr]

<blockquote id="quote"><span class="smalltext" id="quote">quote:<hr id="quote">You could just use HTML.<hr id="quote"></blockquote id="quote"></span id="quote">
How would that help? If I understand Syedur right, he's having problems with '&' and '<' which has to be encoded as e.g. &amp; and &lt; repectively. But this has to be done in HTML too.

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David</font id="Courier New">

[Syedur]

Agreed with David!

I am not trying to change anything but trying to extract some &, " and ' quotes into long format HTML. So, when the page is being valid by XHTML 1.0 validation.

Abhi, thanks but your script isn't working...
maybe I just need some direction on using it.

[Abhi]

It should this does,

var txt = "abhi & me";

function format( s ) {
return String( s ).split('&').join('*'); // you'll see a space in the join argument, thats is an &nbs p;
}

format( txt );