how to create xml page

Question

I am trying to create a page with .xml extension. Below are the steps I followed:

• Created a schema with one text field.
• Created a component with above schema and added desired xml content to component field.
• Created a DWT and CT for component.
• Created a page DWT to render component presentations.
• Created a PT with extension as ".xml".
• Created a page with above PT and added the above component.

Tried to publish the page.Publish is successful but when i try to view the page, i get an error as below.While page preview works fine.

Answer 1

As the component content is inside an xml itself, the text is going to be "escaped", so you need something to unescape the content. So the xml is going to be published full of "& lt;" and "& gt;" characters.

What we usually use is a C# Fragment to unscape such characters. Something like this:

Item salida = package.GetByName(Package.OutputName);

string strSalida = salida.GetAsString();
strSalida = strSalida.Replace("&lt;","<");
strSalida = strSalida.Replace("&gt;",">");

package.Remove(salida);
salida.SetAsString(strSalida);
package.PushItem("Output", salida);

And Add this C# Fragment after the Dreamweaver Template in the Page Template, as the last stage of the publishing.