UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi everyone,

When I use

echo "<textarea cols ="75" rows ="20" align="center">"
echo |cat xyz.sh
echo "</textarea>"

I am able to view the file xyz.sh in the text area
but when I try to echo an xml

echo "<textarea cols ="75" rows ="20" align="center">"
echo |cat xml.txt
echo "</textarea>"

I get the following error

A string literal was expected, but no opening quote character was found. Error processing resource 'http://flman800.nat.bt....
<textarea cols =75 rows =20 align=center>


Any idea why this xml cannot is not getting echoed into the textarea

Please post an example xml.txt

One thing I can think of is that you will need to escape special characters before you put in the textarea. Actually this is true for anything that is put in the HTML. Say, for XML tags such as <test> you will need to escape as &lt;test&gt; otherwise even if you manage to make its way to HTML it is not going to output correctly.

Another alternative is to use a CDATA section i.e. <![CDATA[ your markup ]]>