[plt-scheme] literal html data in servlets

BTW, This function is provided by (lib "xml.ss" "xml")

On 8/18/05, Jay McCarthy <jay.mccarthy at gmail.com> wrote:
> There is a way. Sorry for being away on vaca.
> 
> (make-cdata (make-location 0 0 0) (make-location 0 0 0) "the-string")
> 
> In an xexpr will insert "the-string" literally.
> 
> I think this could be made less verbose, like (cdata "the-string"),
> but that's not what it is now.
> 
> Jay
> 
> On 8/18/05, Eli Barzilay <eli at barzilay.org> wrote:
> > On Aug 18, Hans Oesterholt-Dijkema wrote:
> > > Hmm, ok, but what I really want is to include real (partial) HTML
> > > code into an xexpr.
> >
> > Seems like there is no way to escape into normal strings using xexprs.
> > Besides the advice of switching to another system, the only way I
> > could find to do this is escape is through comment objects.  The thing
> > is that comments contain arbitrary text which is never checked, so a
> > hack that can be used is:
> >
> >   (make-comment
> >    (format "-->\n~a\n<!--"
> >            "arbitrary html string")))
> >
> > A proper solution would be to fix the xml collection to have a
> > construct that inserts literal text.  (There was probably some reason
> > why this wasn't done...)
> >
> > --
> >           ((lambda (x) (x x)) (lambda (x) (x x)))          Eli Barzilay:
> >                   http://www.barzilay.org/                 Maze is Life!
> >
> >
> 
> 
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> Jay McCarthy <jay at cs.brown.edu>
> http://jay.makeoutcity.com/
> 


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