Rendering Stored HTML

Ryandb2

We currently have a CMS system that stores content as HTML. We are using web services to pull this information into a BIRT report. The issue we are having is with data type binding. When we try to bind the html data to a field in BIRT we only have the generic data types (string, numeric, BLOB, etc). When we bind this object to a string, it renders as plain text, so in the report viewer you would see <div><strong class='bbc'>Content</strong></div> instead of the rendered content. What is the best way to work around this issue? Is there anyway to tell this field that the content it is storing is HTML and to render it as such?

mwilliams

Hi Ryandb2,

You should be able to bring it in as a string, then use a text element to display the value with a format of HTML. Something like:

<VALUE-OF format="HTML">row["HTMLtext"]</VALUE-OF>

With HTML selected in the dropdown where "Auto" is the default.