Hi. I want to assign an XML string to an XML attribute. This XML string must
undergo "escape" conversion so that the < and & symbols are converted in to
escaped equivalents.

Does the .Net library have a conversion method that does this? Note that I
want to construct the resulting XML string myself without having to use an
XmlDocument.

E.g.

string myXml = "<root><record/><record/></root>";

string myDoc = "<doc myXml='" + Converter.escapeMyXml (myXml ) + "'/>";

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McGeeky wrote:

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> Does the .Net library have a conversion method that does this? Note that I
> want to construct the resulting XML string myself without having to use an
> XmlDocument.
>
> E.g.
>
> string myXml = "<root><record/><record/></root>";
>
> string myDoc = "<doc myXml='" + Converter.escapeMyXml (myXml ) + "'/>";[/color]

Sure, you should always use XmlTextWriter if you want to construct/write
some XML, here is a simple example:

string myXml = "<root><record/><record/></root>";

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);

xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("doc");
xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("myXml", myXml);
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.Flush();
xmlWriter.Close();

string xml = stringWriter.ToString();

Console.WriteLine("XML created is:\r\n{0}", xml);

Result then is e.g.

<doc myXml="&lt;root&gt;&lt;record/&gt;&lt;record/&gt;&lt;/root&gt;" />


So .NET provides all what you need. Only I have doubts that putting XML
escaped into an attribute is usually a good idea as that way it loses
its structure and is plain text for any XML tool.

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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Thanks for that! Its really helped.

The reason for the XML in the attribute is that I am passing it as a
parameter to a stored procedure which then uses openxml to read from it.

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"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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>
>
> McGeeky wrote:
>
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>> Does the .Net library have a conversion method that does this? Note that
>> I want to construct the resulting XML string myself without having to use
>> an XmlDocument.
>>
>> E.g.
>>
>> string myXml = "<root><record/><record/></root>";
>>
>> string myDoc = "<doc myXml='" + Converter.escapeMyXml (myXml ) + "'/>";[/color]
>
> Sure, you should always use XmlTextWriter if you want to construct/write
> some XML, here is a simple example:
>
> string myXml = "<root><record/><record/></root>";
>
> StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
> XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
>
> xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("doc");
> xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("myXml", myXml);
> xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
> xmlWriter.Flush();
> xmlWriter.Close();
>
> string xml = stringWriter.ToString();
>
> Console.WriteLine("XML created is:\r\n{0}", xml);
>
> Result then is e.g.
>
> <doc myXml="&lt;root&gt;&lt;record/&gt;&lt;record/&gt;&lt;/root&gt;" />
>
>
> So .NET provides all what you need. Only I have doubts that putting XML
> escaped into an attribute is usually a good idea as that way it loses its
> structure and is plain text for any XML tool.
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/[/color]