RE: [ic] HTML in XML

["Kevin Walsh" <suppressed>]

Grant suppressed wrote:
> I'm still working on the IC/eBay integration (it's only a matter of time),
> and I want to be able to use HTML in an item's description.  That means
> the HTML will be passed to eBay via XML.  The eBay docs say:
> 
> ###
> The Description input argument may optionally be submitted using CDATA if
> you want to use HTML or XML-reserved characters in the description. You
> cannot embed JavaScript in an item description. Example of CDATA use:
> 
> <Description><![CDATA[<b>Brand new</b> toy truck]]></Description> ###
> 
> When I set up my Description XML tag it looks like this:
> 
> ###
> <Description><![CDATA[[scratch description]]]></Description> ###
> 
> and eBay gets [scratch description] as the description.  This is all
> happening on a test page, and all kinds of other stuff is parsing jus
> fine. Does anyone have any bright ideas that will allow passing HTML in
> an XML request like this as well as allow IC tags to be included for
> parsing? 
> 
Your question has nothing to do with passing HTML in an XML request;
It has to do with the interpolation of Interchange tags.  The method
you're using is clearly not set up to perform this interpolation, so
the Interchange tags are being passed intact.

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