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From: Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de>
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Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2011 10:51:36 +0200
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JustWondering wrote:

> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:
>> Adam Harvey wrote:
>> > JustWondering wrote:
>> >> What I'm expecting is:
>> >> <stocklist>
>> >> <item type="fruit">
>> >> <description><![CDATA[Apples are <b->yummy</b>]]></description>
>> >> </item>
>> >> <item type="vegetable">
>> >> </item></stocklist>
>>
>> > I'm not really sure why you'd expect that dash in <b->, but at any
>> > rate, running your code on a current PHP 5.3 build results in what I'd
>> > expect, which is:
>>
>> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
>> > <stockList>
>> > <item type="fruit">
>> > <description><![CDATA[Apples are <b>yummy</b>]]></description>
>> > </item>
>> > <item type="vegetable"/>
>> > </stockList>
>>
>> > What version of PHP are you running?
>>
>> PHP is not the issue here, but that the OP has not understood what XML is
>> (and how it is to be used), what a CDATA section is (that its content is
>> *not* parsed except for `]]>', and so cannot possibly display bold
>> because of <b>…</b> in it), and that Firebug's innerHTML-based Edit
>> feature is shaky at best with XML documents served as text/html.
>>
>> Something along
>>
>> header('Content-Type: text/xml; charset=UTF-8');
>>
>> is missing after
>>
>> <?php
>>
>> but that would still not display anything of the markup in bold.  (And
>> that is good so.)
> 
> Perhaps you should read the post before making up assumptions about
> the OP.

I really do not have to make assumptions in this case.  It is very obvious 
that you do not know what you are doing.

> Where did I say that I'm expecting to see bold?

In your OP.  Precisely:

>>> What I'm expecting to see is Apples are yummy, with yummy in bold.

> I am pointing to the generated XML code, not how the generated code is
> displayed.

Then you should have said so.  XML is not (X)HTML; a `b' element has no 
inherent meaning there.  And when `<b>…</b>' is in a CDATA section, it does 
not constitute an element at all.

> Why would I expect anything in a CDATA section to be displayed?

You should expect the content of a CDATA section to be displayed verbatim 
because that is how it works.  You are not expecting it because evidentially 
you have not understood what a CDATA section is, and how XML works.

Please trim your quotes to the relevant minimum.


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