New Post: HTML Fragment Creation in Function ?

Hi Community,

I am looking to use a function to generate an html fragment (as in just the opening line of a div layer for instance) inserted into an XML template with a three parameters.

I have tried both the StringBuilder approach and the HTMLTextWriter approach to build up the output in an inline function which looks fine in the console but in C1 rendering I loose the special characters, even if the output is surrounded in CDATA.

Furthermore the HTMLTextwriter gives me trouble later as I cant seem to create an override to just create a RenderEndTag in a similar function as HTMLTextWriter is hard wired to deduce what type of closing tag it needs based on a required BeginTag (which in my fragment function I do not provide !!)

The reason for my approach here is that I do not want to embed a lot of other code and functions inside this fragment function, and looking for a way to be able to generate a single opening html fragment and later in the template add a closing function based on a few given parameters and the rest of the function using dynamic data to fill content within the fragment.

This is the Opening html tag fragment function =

using System.IO;
using System.Linq;
using System.Web.UI;
using Composite.Data;

namespace MyRentals.Functions
{
    public static class InlineMethodFunction
    {
        public static StringWriter Fn_DomLayerOP(string DomType, string Class, string Title)
        {
            // Initialize StringWriter instance.
            StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
            string SiteLocation = "";
            string SiteRegion = "";
            string SiteVacation = "";

            using (DataConnection connection = new DataConnection())
            {
                SiteLocation = (from d in connection.Get<ALocal.settings>()
                                       where d.settings_variable == "SITE_LOCATION"
                                       select d.settings_variablecontent).First().ToString();

                SiteRegion = (from d in connection.Get<ALocal.settings>()
                                     where d.settings_variable == "SITE_REGION"
                                     select d.settings_variablecontent).First().ToString();

                SiteVacation = (from d in connection.Get<ALocal.settings>()
                                       where d.settings_variable == "LANG_VACATION"
                                       select d.settings_variablecontent).First().ToString();
            }

            // Put HtmlTextWriter in using block because it needs to call Dispose.
            using (HtmlTextWriter writer = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter))
            {
                // XMLString.Append("<" + DomType + " class='" + Class + "' title='" + SiteLocation + " " + SiteRegion + " " + SiteVacation + " " + Title + "'>");
          
                writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, Class);
                writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Title, (SiteLocation + " " + SiteRegion + " " + SiteVacation + " " + Title));
                 writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Class, Class);
                    writer.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Title, (SiteLocation + " " + SiteRegion + " " + SiteVacation + " " + Title));
                    if (DomType == "div")
            {
                writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Div);
            }
            if (DomType == "h2")
            {
                writer.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.H2);
            }

                //End tag in Fn_DomLayerCL.cs
            }
            // Return the result.
            return stringWriter;
        }

        static void Main()
        {
            // Demonstrate HtmlTextWriter.
            //Console.WriteLine(Fn_DomLayerOP());
        }

    }
}

and the snippet from within its relative tag closing function =

using (HtmlTextWriter writer = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter, string.Empty))
            {
                    if (DomType == "div")
            {
            writer.RenderEndTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Div);
            }
            if (DomType == "h2")
            {
            writer.RenderEndTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.H2);
            }
             } 

A StringBuilder in the closing tag function outputs what I need, but again... converts the < > to "&lt" "&gt" in the XML/HTML Renderer output :(

Am I going about this totally wrong or am I missing something simple ?