[CLOSED] Color highlight items in CDATA block.

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Issue by fr32c
Sunday Oct 13, 2013 at 11:26 GMT
Originally opened as adobe/brackets#5504

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Hi.

I've read issue #5058 and realize it might be connected to my problem.

For scripting matters, i have to embed html+js inside an .xml file

My xml file looks like:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!-- blah blah -->
<xmlNodes>
    <node1>
    </node1>

    <myHTMLnode>
        <![CDATA[
            <p> here i put html</p>
            <script> //and sometimes javascript </script>
        ]]>
    </myHTMLnode>
</xmlNodes>

I know CDATA often means "don't open, read, translate…" but since all this is a big embed around my html element, i would love to have them in a readable way, syntax highlighted.

Do you think this is something we could build or is it too complicate ?

PS : xml is not live previewed or anything here, i'm just looking for syntax highlight inside…

[core-ai-bot]

Comment by njx
Monday Oct 14, 2013 at 18:58 GMT

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@fr32c - I'm not sure how we would know that the contents of a CDATA tag is HTML as opposed to some other kind of language. It might be possible to write a one-off CodeMirror mode extension that would handle your particular XML schema and look for this, and then hook it up to a Brackets extension. But it's not something that we would generally put in core, I think.

Closing.

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Comment by fr32c
Sunday Oct 20, 2013 at 05:36 GMT

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Hi Narcisco. Ok for this one I'll have to skp because "code mirror" and "writing an extension" sounds way over my capacities… I guess that extension would require some kind of comment inside the CDATA, like /* //i am html */ to be read… well… thanks for reading :)

[tuanttdev]

hi, I have same problem to you. Have you had any solutions for this problem?