Thanks for the replies guys, unfortunately I'm still kinda stuck. I tried the xhtml serializer (which is really an xml serializer) and the xml serializer They almost work, but not quite. First, Mozilla 1.0 won't render tables correctly (<td> bgcolor attribute, though Chimera renders fine) for some reason. More importantly they turn an empty set of tags (ie. <textarea></textarea>) into one tag (<textarea/>) which is fine for most tags, but for textarea (in Mozilla at least) it causes the text field to be filled with the contents of the html file after the <textarea/> tag to the end of file.
I'm not sure whether <textarea/> is correct in XHTML. If it's not then this could probably be called a bug in an xhtml serializer, even though this makes sense in terms of xml. If it is correct (which i suspect) then it's a bug in Mozilla. Either way it's a PITA. One solution might be to turn off combining empty tags in the xml serializer. Is there a way to do this? There's no docs on the cofiguration parameters for any of the serializers, and I'm a little confused by the source. It looks like XMLSerializer, and HTMLSerializer (through AbstractTextSerializer) get a transformer to do the conversion, and pass a bunch of parameters to it. I assume method is the xslt output method, but what is cdata-section-elements? Could it be of use to me here? Another thing I tried was using a TextSerializer, with the mime-type set to text/html. I figured that for text output it wouldn't mess with the tags, only problem was that mozilla wouldn't render any of the tags, just the text. This is probably because of a namepsace or dtd issue and I'm gonna try to fix it. Justin oh yeah, on more thing that may be important. I'm using cocoon 2.0.1. It didn't include an xhtml entry in <map:serializers> so I copied it from 2.0.3. If the serializers behave differently that could be an issue, but I don't think I can upgrade right now. I'll see. On Friday, August 9, 2002, at 12:42 AM, KOZLOV Roman wrote: > Hi, > > Just a question, if XHTML is XML then is it possible to use XML > serializer? > If not, why? > > Roman > > Vadim Gritsenko wrote: > >>> From: Justin Fagnani-Bell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>> >>> Hi list, >>> >>> I have a page with a form generated by Cocoon. There's a textarea in >>> the form where you can edit some xml (possibly xhtml). Because the >> form >>> is an HTML form I'm using an HTMLSerializer. But I want to keep the >>> serializer from altering the markup in the textarea, because if it's >>> xhtml content it will turn <br/>'s into <br>'s. Then when the text is >>> saved and you visit the form again, or view the page the text is on, I >>> get a parsing error. <snip> >> Try xhtml serializer, it comes with default sitemap. >> >> Vadim >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please check that your question has not already been answered in the FAQ before posting. <http://xml.apache.org/cocoon/faq/index.html> To unsubscribe, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> For additional commands, e-mail: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
