[Web4lib] incorporating a table complete with HTML tags into a web enabled database

[John Fitzgibbon]

Hi,

We have a database of place names. All records consist of a place name, a description and a situation field. A very small minority of records also have a table. The table can be on any topic. The table-headings and number of table-columns vary greatly from record to record.

How should I incorporate these tables into my database?

The best I can come up with is to put the table in an additional field complete with HTML tags and table contents. I use an HTMLEncode function on the other fields when I output them to HTML. Obviously, I would have to avoid doing this with this particular field but that would not be a problem.

This approach seems to be such a terrible kludge that I can't help thinking that there must be a more elegant solution.

I would welcome any advice and suggestions.


Regards,

John



John Fitzgibbon



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