Hey Esther,

Esther Fuldauer a écrit :
> Do you see the big picture now? I'm stuck with server-side scripting at 
> the moment.

Client-side, actually :-)

> By the way, now that I have you in the thread, do you know or could 

"Now that you have *me* in the thread?"  Uh?!

> indicate me whree I could find some example on how to do this using xml 
> instead of html for the data?

Well, I can't see how useful that would be.  I mean, you're already 
applying a band-aid over it because you can't, so far, do it properly 
(server-side).  Why would you want to add extra complexity by moving it 
to XML?  This doesn't appear to be useful at all.

I mean:

1) The data you're getting back are to be presented as HTML
2) Their semantics is probably properly represented by <p> and the like.
3) The data isn't generated by something else, then hand-converted to 
HTML, is it?  It's created as HTML already, I suppose?  So why adding 
unnecessary juggling?
4) Client-side processing of this XML would require manual exploration 
of its DOM (I assume you have no control over the client-side browsers, 
so XPath or E4X are out of the question), and XHTML DOM building (even 
with script.aculo.us' Builder...).  Or even worse: XSL/T transforms!  Yay!

So, in a word: are you *sure* you want to add this extraneous complexity?

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Christophe Porteneuve aka TDD
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