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Asked: 2026-05-16T18:11:42+00:00

i have a xml like this: <cont><?php echo nl2br($cont); ?></cont> the response is: <cont>

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i have a xml like this:

<cont><?php echo nl2br($cont); ?></cont>

the response is:

<cont>
2<br/>
3<br/>
4<br/>
</cont>

in the page the code is:

mainParentElement = document.getElementById('div_cont');
RemoveAllChildElements(mainParentElement);
mainParentElement.innerHTML = "<div class=\'div_cont\'>" + xmlDoc.getElementsByTagName('cont')[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue +  "</div>";

in this case the result in the div is only the first line. (2)
if i deleted the nl2br the result is all the lines. (of course with out the <br>)

how can i add the <br>?

thank you!

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  1. Editorial Team

    Read about CDATA.

    There are characters that are not allowed as content of XML tags, like <, because for the parser they mark the beginning of a tag (obviously).
    So if you want to have such data as content of a tag, you have to escape it somehow. In XML this is done by wrapping the content into <![CDATA[ ... ]]>, which explicitly tells the parser to not interpret the data contained (treat it as C haracter DATA).

    Basically you have to do:

    <cont><![CDATA[<?php echo nl2br($cont); ?>]]></cont>
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