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14-Jul-11 4:27

In a year he could actually learn how to code properly OMG | :OMG:

Re: chemsketch

Richard MacCutchan14-Jul-11 4:30

Richard MacCutchan

14-Jul-11 4:30

Are you sure?

The best things in life are not things.

Re: chemsketch

BobJanova14-Jul-11 5:09

Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 5:09

In a year, one should be able to. This guy? Well, come to your own conclusion Laugh | :laugh:

Searching XML file

NarVish13-Jul-11 23:26

NarVish

13-Jul-11 23:26

Hi,

I would like to get "Token" value based on the description from the below xml file.
For example, if my input is 'Company'(Description), it should return 'COS'(Token).
I tried with XPath. But not working due to multi level of nodes in xml. Could you pls guide me to achieve this. Thanks in advance.

<CodeList>
  <Entity>
    <Token>PROD</Token>
    <Description>prod</Description>
    <Entity>
      <Token>BUSINESS</Token>
      <Description>Business News</Description>
      <Entity>
        <Token>COS</Token>
        <Description>Company News</Description>
        <Entity>
          <Token>ANA</Token>
          <Description>Analyst Ratings</Description>
          <Entity>
            <Token>ANAMOVES</Token>
            <Description>Analyst Ratings, Estimates and Target Price Changes</Description>
            <Entity>
              <Token>ANACHANGE</Token>
              <Description>Analyst Rating Changes</Description>
              <Entity>
                <Token>ANACUT</Token>
                <Description>Analyst Downgrades</Description>
                <Entity>
                  <Token>ANACUTEVT</Token>
                  <Description>Analyst Ratings Cut Events, Announcements</Description>
                </Entity>
              </Entity>
            </Entity>
          </Entity>
          <Entity>
            <Token>IP</Token>
            <Description>Intellectual Property</Description>
            <Entity>
              <Token>COPYRIGHT</Token>
              <Description>Copyrights</Description>
            </Entity>
          </Entity>
        </Entity>
      </Entity>
      <Entity>
        <Token>DRGPATENT</Token>
        <Description>Drug Patents</Description>
      </Entity>
    </Entity>
  </Entity>
</CodeList>

Re: Searching XML file

Mirko198014-Jul-11 1:17

Mirko1980

14-Jul-11 1:17

Use // to search in any level into your XML.

The following XPath will give you what you want:
//Entity[contains(./Description, 'Company')]/Token

Re: Searching XML file

NarVish14-Jul-11 2:22

NarVish

14-Jul-11 2:22

Thank you Mirko1980, its working

Re: Searching XML file

Not Active14-Jul-11 1:59

Not Active

14-Jul-11 1:59

You could use Linq to XML[^]

I know the language. I've read a book. - _Madmatt

Wheels01213-Jul-11 8:31

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

13-Jul-11 8:31

Good afternoon.

We created a control (somecontrol.cs) which displays a dynamic bullet list. In some scenerios, one of the bullets will have a hyperlink.

The problem is, the a href code renders as text. We are adding to a string List and using it as the DataSource for the bulleted list:

private BulletedList _blConfirmText = new BulletedList(); 
List<string> displayText = new List<string>();
_confirmText.Text = CONFIRMTEXTLB;
                    displayText.Add(BULLETONELB);
                    displayText.Add(BULLETTWOLB);
                  
                    if (hasUpdateAccess)                    
                        displayText.Add(BULLETTHREELBHL);                          
                    else
                        displayText.Add(BULLETTHREELB);

//set the bullet style and load the bulletd list
            _blConfirmText.CssClass = "bulletItems";
            _blConfirmText.DataSource = displayText;
            _blConfirmText.DataBind();

Any idea how to get this to render correctly? Any suggestions? Thank you, WHEELS

Shameel13-Jul-11 21:53

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

13-Jul-11 21:53

What type of control is it? Is it a WinForm User control?

There's no magic wand that will parse your href string and display it as a link automatically, you'll have to write your own logic to achieve this behavior.

EDIT: I see that you're trying to create some sort of a Web User Control. Can you show some code where the actual rendering happens?

Wheels01214-Jul-11 1:28

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 1:28

private const string BULLETTHREELBHL = "This is an example of the hyperlink <a href=\"/../Test/FW_DEFAULT.ASPX?Serviceid=Test&title=Test+Page>Test Page\"</a> where people click to navigate to another page.";

BobJanova14-Jul-11 2:04

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 2:04

Your HTML is invalid (the quotes around the attribute value aren't done right).

Wheels01214-Jul-11 2:06

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 2:06

Hi Bob. What should they be? WHEELS

Shameel14-Jul-11 2:16

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 2:16

cs"

private const string BULLETTHREELBHL = "This is an example of the hyperlink <a href=\"/../Test/FW_DEFAULT.ASPX?Serviceid=Test&title=Test+Page\">Test Page</a> where people click to navigate to another page.";

EDIT: If it still doesn't work, make sure that it is not Html encoded before being rendered. For example. The Text property of some controls automatically Html encode their content. So if you put html tags inside the Text property, they'll be renedered as html tags.

BobJanova14-Jul-11 2:16

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 2:16

private const string BULLETTHREELBHL = "This is an example of the hyperlink <a href=\"/../Test/FW_DEFAULT.ASPX?Serviceid=Test&title=Test+Page\">Test Page</a> where people click to navigate to another page.";

If you can't fix mistakes like that in HTML then why are you writing websites ...

Wheels01214-Jul-11 4:11

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 4:11

Thanks Bob and Shameel. We had done some modifications to this code and when we put it back, we must have put the syntax back incorrectly. Unfortunately after fixing the code, it still renders as text.

WHEELS

BobJanova14-Jul-11 4:25

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 4:25

You still haven't shown the code that actually renders this text. Do other HTML tags work correctly? If your user control simply renders the text literally into the HTML stream then it should work so I'm guessing something is wrong in that area.

Shameel14-Jul-11 4:53

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 4:53

It is being Html encoded before being rendered. As I said in my previous post, certain controls automatically html encode their content before rendering. Just to test if that is the actual problem, try using a div tag (HtmlGenericControl) and set its innerText property to the desired html output.

Wheels01214-Jul-11 7:54

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 7:54

Hi Shameel. The text renders correctly when set up as a label directly on the page. I believe you are correct about the encoding issue. Is there a way to decode? WHEELS

Shameel14-Jul-11 8:08

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

14-Jul-11 8:08

It depends on how you render the output. You have still not shown the code that actually renders your html output.

Wheels01215-Jul-11 7:45

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

15-Jul-11 7:45

I had to abandon the Common control approach. I added a simple BulletedList to the .aspx file, but I am still having a very challenging time setting a hyperlink on a given word in a bullet sentence. I am starting to believe this can't be done.

There are three DisplayMode options for a BulletedList: Text, HyperLink, and ImageButton, but no Text/Hyperlink combo.

If you have time can you try to create one that does what I am looking for?

Thanks, WHEELS

Shameel15-Jul-11 7:58

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

15-Jul-11 7:58

Bulleted list and hyperlink will definitely work. Try this:

HTML

<ul>
<li><a href="http://google.com">Google</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bing.com">Bing</a></li>
</ul>

Wheels01215-Jul-11 8:04

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

15-Jul-11 8:04

Sorry Shameel. I was not entirely clear. I have done that sucessfully, but what I am looking for is the following:

* This is an example of <hyperlink on="" the="" word="" good=""> programming. Then when you click the underlined word good it takes you to http://www.codeproject.com.

* is a bullet.

WHEELS

Shameel15-Jul-11 8:11

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

15-Jul-11 8:11

I dont see any problem with that too:

HTML

<ul>
<li>To Access Google, click <a href="http://google.com">here</a></li>
<li><a href="http://bing.com">This</a> takes you to Bing</li>
</ul>

Wheels01215-Jul-11 8:14

Re: Adding a hyperlink to a sentence of text in a bulleted list

15-Jul-11 8:14

It seems to work well in the .aspx, but now I have to put it in as a dynamic variable. Is there any issue with including the a href in the string?

WHEELS

Shameel15-Jul-11 8:19