How to get access to the complete HTML just before its sent to the client

[Rahul Agarwal]

Hi

In our web page we use a combination of HTML and server side controls and
some of them have a custom attribute based on which we need to find and
replace the values once the HTML is ready.

For e.g. <LABEL DICTCODE="XYZ">Some text</LABEL>

At run time just before the complete HTML is sent to the client-side I want
to get hold of the HTML so that I can find and replace all the HTML elements
with DICTCODE attribute with some custom value.

Please advice.
Thanks
Rahul

 

[bruce barker]

this is what httpmodules are for.

 

[Rahul Agarwal]

Hi Jim and Bruce

Thanks for you reply, it was a good e.g. to understand how we can get access
to the HTML just before rendering out. Can I take this a step further and
ask if it is possible that since I have access to the HTML I can add my
translation before rendering out but can I save the new HTML (with
translation) in to a Cache and for the next request just use the cache and
avoid the full page construction (rendering of each controls, etc) as I have
already got the HTML from the last request.

Is it possible and is it a good idea. The reason I am asking this that in
many of our pages we hardly use server side controls its mainly HTML
elements and we need to do some translation just before is rendered but to
improve performance can I generate the HTML once and reuse it again and
again.

Thanks a lot
Rahul Agarwal

Hi Rahul,

You can do that using a Stream object. I have a simple sample that does
it. I've attached it.

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]
MCP+I, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA
Microsoft Developer Support
(e-mail address removed)

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Hi

In our web page we use a combination of HTML and server side controls and
some of them have a custom attribute based on which we need to find and
replace the values once the HTML is ready.

For e.g. <LABEL DICTCODE="XYZ">Some text</LABEL>

At run time just before the complete HTML is sent to the client-side I want
to get hold of the HTML so that I can find and replace all the HTML elements
with DICTCODE attribute with some custom value.

Please advice.
Thanks
Rahul

 

[Jim Cheshire [MSFT]]

Rahul,

You can do that by overriding the Render method in your own base class.

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]
MCP+I, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA
Microsoft Developer Support
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Hi Jim and Bruce

Thanks for you reply, it was a good e.g. to understand how we can get access
to the HTML just before rendering out. Can I take this a step further and
ask if it is possible that since I have access to the HTML I can add my
translation before rendering out but can I save the new HTML (with
translation) in to a Cache and for the next request just use the cache and
avoid the full page construction (rendering of each controls, etc) as I have
already got the HTML from the last request.

Is it possible and is it a good idea. The reason I am asking this that in
many of our pages we hardly use server side controls its mainly HTML
elements and we need to do some translation just before is rendered but to
improve performance can I generate the HTML once and reuse it again and
again.

Thanks a lot
Rahul Agarwal

Hi Rahul,

You can do that using a Stream object. I have a simple sample that does
it. I've attached it.

Jim Cheshire [MSFT]
MCP+I, MCSE, MCSD, MCDBA
Microsoft Developer Support
(e-mail address removed)

This post is provided "AS-IS" with no warranties and confers no rights.

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From: "Rahul Agarwal" <[email protected]>
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Hi

In our web page we use a combination of HTML and server side controls and
some of them have a custom attribute based on which we need to find and
replace the values once the HTML is ready.

For e.g. <LABEL DICTCODE="XYZ">Some text</LABEL>

At run time just before the complete HTML is sent to the client-side I want
to get hold of the HTML so that I can find and replace all the HTML elements
with DICTCODE attribute with some custom value.

Please advice.
Thanks
Rahul