InfoPath Dev

Hi,Does anyone know how to set the XHTML code read from a XML file to a Rich Text Control in InfoPath 2003.  S.Y.M. Wong-A-Ton's article mentions about using XPathNavigator which is supported with InfoPath2007 Object Model (   http://www.bizsupportonline.net/infopath2007/how-to-programmatically-get-set-xhtml-rich-text-infopath.htm). InfoPath 2003 Object Model uses IXMLDOMNode which doesn't have a property to set the innerxml retrieved through System.XML.XMLDocument from a XML file that has XHTML code.Here' my incomplete sample code XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();xmlDocument.Load(@"C:\RTE\RichText.xml");XmlNode rootNode = xmlDocument.DocumentElement;IXMLDOMNode domNode = thisXDocument.DOM.selectSingleNode("/my:myFields/my:field1");domNode ??I have the XHTML code in rootNode.InnerXml, how do i use it to set mt Rich Text control.

Any Ideas? 

Thanks, Arvind

Have you tried setting domNode.xml?

I can't. It's a read only property.

This one woked for me DOMDocument50 xmldoc = new DOMDocument50(); XmlNamespaceManager nm = GetNamespaceManager(); xmldoc.setProperty("SelectionNamespaces", "xmlns:my='http://schemas.microsoft.com/office/infopath/2003/myXSD/2010-02-08T11-28-21' xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance'"); xmldoc.async= false; xmldoc.validateOnParse = false; xmldoc.loadXML(xmlNode.OuterXml); domNode = (IXMLDOMNode)xmldoc;

Following is code that demonstrates the only way I could programmatically set a rich text field and retain the formatting. It is written in C#, for IP2003. It uses the clipboard ala IPC.

Call the method like so:

insertRichText(@"<h1>foo</h1>", "//aRichTextField");

And here is the method:

public void insertRichText(string richText, string xPathForInsertion)

        {

            //Declarations

            StringBuilder sb;

            IXMLDOMNode xNodeTarget;

            Encoding encoding;

            string htmlPrefix;

            string htmlSuffix;

 

            //Assignments

            xNodeTarget = thisXDocument.DOM.documentElement.selectSingleNode(xPathForInsertion);

            sb = new StringBuilder();

            encoding = Encoding.UTF8;

            htmlPrefix = @"<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC ""-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN""><html><head><meta http-equiv=Content-Type content=""text/html; charset={0}""></head><body><!--StartFragment-->";

            htmlSuffix = @"<!--EndFragment--></body></html>";

            htmlPrefix = string.Format(htmlPrefix, encoding.WebName);

            htmlSuffix = string.Format(htmlSuffix, encoding.WebName);

 

            //Add the top to the clip

            sb.Append(htmlPrefix);

 

            //Add the content to the clip

            sb.Append(richText);

 

            //Add the bottom to the clip

            sb.Append(htmlSuffix);

 

            //Add the clip to the clipboard

            System.Windows.Forms.DataObject clipDO = new System.Windows.Forms.DataObject();

            clipDO.SetData(System.Windows.Forms.DataFormats.Html, sb.ToString());

            System.Windows.Forms.Clipboard.SetDataObject(clipDO, true);

 

            //Select field element

            thisXDocument.View.SelectText(xNodeTarget, Type.Missing);

 

            //Paste into element

            thisXDocument.View.ExecuteAction("Paste", Type.Missing);

        }