xml string in html element

Question

Hi

Is there a way to "store" an xml string retrieved from the database in an html element, that has been created dynamically?

basically i would like to do this:

<select>
<option name="test" xmlValue="<?xml version='1.0'?>
<FiltersViewModel xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>
</FiltersViewModel>">test</option>
</select>

 

in a  windows 8 app where the drop down list gets created dynamically, currently we use the "toStaticHTML()" method to create the dynamic list, but this removes all tags.

I want to rather store each items xml as I thought when we query the db, the xml is returned as well, so I dont want to go back to get the xml and then use that xml for another function, i would like to just store it in the drop down for easier access.

Thank you

Sasha

Answer 1

Did you try Hidden fields in HTML ? There are server side versions also available in ASP.NET for them.

<asp:HiddenField
    EnableTheming="True|False"
    EnableViewState="True|False"
    ID="string"
    OnDataBinding="DataBinding event handler"
    OnDisposed="Disposed event handler"
    OnInit="Init event handler"
    OnLoad="Load event handler"
    OnPreRender="PreRender event handler"
    OnUnload="Unload event handler"
    OnValueChanged="ValueChanged event handler"
    runat="server"
    SkinID="string"
    Value="string"
    Visible="True|False"
/>

Thanks,

Amit Tonk

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Answer 2

Hi Amit

I just tried it, and thanks it works, was able to create hidden text fields.

Thanks again

Kind regards,

Sasha