Displaying an HTML DTD as text on a page

oaf357

I'm trying to create a form that allows users to pick various aspects of building a web page and have an output displayed as plain text once the user hits submit. The problem I'm having is getting the DTD to be displayed as plain text.

I'd prefer an include but am up for anything at this point (this is the third forum I've been to asking this same question). This is part of the form I'm working on.

  <td class="left"><select class="textbar" name="dtd">
      <option value="<? include ("loose.inc") ?>">Transitional</option>
      <option value="<? include ("strict.inc") ?>">Strict</option>
      <option value="<? include ("frameset.inc") ?>">Frameset</option>
    </select></td>

The idea is to take the output of the include and display it as plain text once submit is hit by the user. Thanks in advance for any help.

mogster

Why insert the include into the select?
Try:

<td class="left"><select class="textbar" name="dtd"> 
<option value="1">Transitional</option> 
<option value="2">Strict</option> 
<option value="3">Frameset</option> 
</select></td>

Then on post:

if($dtd == "1") {
include("loose.inc");
} else if ($dtd == "2") {
include("strict.inc");
} else {
include("frameset.inc");
}

knutm

oaf357

That would work great but the problem is displaying the actually DTD in human readable, plain text. Not actual HTML but text in a page.

Mordecai

I'm not quite sure, but you may be looking for the HTML <XMP> tag. This will exempt all HTML tags within the tag, thus showing the code. You could also replace all <s with <, and all >s with >.

oaf357

Replacing a DTD with > and < doesn't work either. I can't believe PHP won't let some one say see this... display this as text. Regardless of what's in it.

PS: The XMP tag is obsolete.

Mordecai

I guess I just don't understand what you're trying to do, then.

Perhaps you can rephrase what you're trying to obtain?

oaf357

I'm working on a script that will (based on some user input) generate in plain text the framework of an HTML 4.01 compliant web page. It will include all recommended META tags, title, head, and body tags.

W3C standard requires an HTML DTD. I'm trying to create the form so that when a user selects transitional, strict, or frameset as their DTD, the DTD and all other tags mentioned earlier are displayed (upon hitting submit) in plain text. Displaying the DTD as plain text is the only problem I've had. Everything else has gone quite smoothly.

If you still have questions, I can attach the script.