Get HTML content using Request.Form

[Erick]

I am generating a custom edit page using an xslt file/transform and in the xslt, I have a RadEditor. Because the RadEditor is in the xslt file, I do not have access to the normal RadEditor methods to get the html content on postback.  Basically, I have to get the content via Request.Form.  Also, the content will be stored as an attribute value in xml, which means it needs to be encoded since I obviously can't store symbols like < & >.

The content that I get back from Request.Form looks like it has been encoded (ie: < symbol replaced by '%3c') and I can store everything fine in the xml db.  However, when I retrieve the data, I don't have any way of decoding it so it displays correctly in the RadEditor.

Any ideas on what I can do with the encoded data coming back from the db?

[Rumen]

Hi Erick,

We use the code below to encode the the special tags and symbols in HTML content:

internal class ContentEncoder

{

static ContentEncoder()

{

_characters = new char[] {'%', '<', '>', '!', '"', '#', '$', '&', '\'', '(', ')', ',', ':',

';', '=', '?', '[', '\\', ']', '^', '`', '{', '|', '}', '~', '+'};

_characterBytes = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(_characters);

}

private static char[] _characters;

private static byte[] _characterBytes;

public static string Encode(string text)

{

for (int i=0; i<_characterBytes.Length; i++)

{

text = text.Replace(_characters[i].ToString(), "%" + _characterBytes[i].ToString("x"));

}

return text;

}

public static string Decode(string text)

{

for (int i=_characterBytes.Length - 1; i>=0; i--)

{

text = text.Replace("%" + _characterBytes[i].ToString("x"), _characters[i].ToString());

}

return text;

}

}

Our suggestion is to integrate the code above in your CMS to achieve your scenario.

Greetings,
Rumen
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[Erick]

Thanks for your quick response.  That works perfectly!

[christopher willis]

This code works well; I am also pulling the editor content from the request.form() collection.

I'm curious if there is any other server side code that I might be missing when I don't call the edit control content, such as security filters or anything like that?

[Rumen]

Hi Christopher,

All editor's filters run on the client. If you want to obtain the editor's content parsed and validated by the filters, you should set the "true" parameter to the editor.get_html() method, e.g.

editor.get_html(true);


Best regards,
Rumen
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[Rajesh]

Thanks. It is working for me.code is well work. thanks once again