Stream text into Etherpad

[eninthala]

Hi,

I understood that SetText() call in etherpad API will be able to set the text all at once in a single span tag.

But I have a requirement of streaming text into Etherpad where in which I need every word in a given sentence to be set under individual span tags.

Ex. Currently etherpad sets the complete text as follows in single span tag upon using setText({padID: "pad_id", text: "Hello World, Happy coding"});:

Output: <span class>Hello World, Happy coding</span>

Expectation: Instead of setting complete sentence in a single span tag, I need to create individual span tags for every word in the sentence thus making it look like a streaming text.

Required output:

<span class>Hello</span>
<span class>World</span>
<span class>,</span>
<span class>Happy</span>
<span class>coding</span>

The question is: How can I programmatically set multiple words into etherpad in their own span tags?

I already tried appendText() API call but the text is getting appended to text under the same span tag.

Please let me know your thoughts.

Thanks in advance!

[SamTV12345]

What happens if you setText with html tags? My expectation would be that they are escaped.