Spartanicus wrote:
> Don't post in HTML, plain text only please. Corrected this once.
>   
My apologies---I was running on habit.

> I assumed that the application *includes* the fragments, not parse them.
> You need to explain further if that isn't the case.
>
>   
My original post indicated, "A common use nowadays, especially with 
wikis and newsfeeds, is to store XHTML fragments (such as 'this is 
<em>really</em> cool') to be later integrated into a larger XHTML 
document." By "store" I mean "store in some external file". By 
"integrated" I mean "gathered together and combined".

I never indicated that the application would parse the fragments 
(although in my particular application this occurs)---even if no parsing 
takes places and simply inclusion is to occur, the application still 
needs to know whether it should render characters such as '<' verbatim 
or whether it should encode them.

Garret