problem with xmltextreader and stream with &

Bjoern Hoehrmann

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June 27th, 2008
07:20 PM
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Re: problem with xmltextreader and stream with &

* CindyH wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:

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>I have an xml stream that I would like to read with xmltextreader.
>Problem is that there are some & inside the xml stream.
>Parse is not working on them.
>Can someone show me sample code for reading a stream like this?

If you mean it has, for example,

<example>You & me</example>

or

<example example=' a && b '></example>

then those are not XML documents, the & must be escaped using & or
some equivalent form. Whoever created the documents must fix them be-
fore you can process them as XML documents.
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CindyH

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June 27th, 2008
07:20 PM
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Re: problem with xmltextreader and stream with &

Well, he claims it's a well formed xml and I doubt he will remove them or
replace them.
The only thing I can think of is using replace function, but was wondering
if there was a better or more standard way.

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>* CindyH wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:

Quote:

>>I have an xml stream that I would like to read with xmltextreader.
>>Problem is that there are some & inside the xml stream.
>>Parse is not working on them.
>>Can someone show me sample code for reading a stream like this?

>
If you mean it has, for example,
>
<example>You & me</example>
>
or
>
<example example=' a && b '></example>
>
then those are not XML documents, the & must be escaped using & or
some equivalent form. Whoever created the documents must fix them be-
fore you can process them as XML documents.
--
Björn Höhrmann · mailto:bjoern@hoehrmann.de · http://bjoern.hoehrmann.de
Weinh. Str. 22 · Telefon: +49(0)621/4309674 · http://www.bjoernsworld.de
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