Hello,
I'd like to have the following structure in my XML file
<lname, _fname, _minit>
<status>it is all good</status>
</lname, _fname, _minit>
But apparently, there is a problem with commas and underscores being in
the key name of the node. How can I escape it?
Thanks.
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Peter Bromberg [C# MVP] wrote: Frank,
This documentation page details exactly what is and is not allowed in an
XmlElement name:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/35577sxd.aspx
Thank you. However, following those rules, something like this:
<order details> would be encoded as <Order_x0020_De tails> (e.g. space
converted to hex plus underscore before and after). When I load the
file into IE, it doesn't convert _x0020_ to an actual space. So I am
confused as to how I should encode spaces and commas when they appear in
the name of the tag.
Thanks.
In two words, you can't. spaces and commas simply aren't allowed in XML
element names. What exactly is it that you hope to accomplish? Certainly
there must be another way to get there... If the idea is to be able to parse
the element name as if it were some CSV delimited format, all you would need
to do is use the uderscore and /or some other "legal" character as the
delimters.
Peter
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"Frank Rizzo" wrote: Peter Bromberg [C# MVP] wrote: Frank,
This documentation page details exactly what is and is not allowed in an
XmlElement name:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/35577sxd.aspx
Thank you. However, following those rules, something like this:
<order details> would be encoded as <Order_x0020_De tails> (e.g. space
converted to hex plus underscore before and after). When I load the
file into IE, it doesn't convert _x0020_ to an actual space. So I am
confused as to how I should encode spaces and commas when they appear in
the name of the tag.
Thanks.
"Frank Rizzo" <fr****@notn.co m> wrote in message
news:Os******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P14.phx.gbl... Hello,
I'd like to have the following structure in my XML file
<lname, _fname, _minit>
<status>it is all good</status>
</lname, _fname, _minit>
But apparently, there is a problem with commas and underscores being in
the key name of the node. How can I escape it?
You can't; those characters are not legal in element names. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags for the exact rules, but
roughly:
1. The first character must be a letter or an underscore
2. The rest can be a letter, a digit, an underscore, a dot, or a dash
The BNF expansions list colons too, but nowadays colons are reserved for
expressing namespaces.
Can you use dots instead of commas?
Element names are not meant to store data, only to identify the data.
It might be better to do something like
<person>
<fname>xxx</fname>
<lname>xxx</lname>
<status>xxx</status>
</person>
"Frank Rizzo" <fr****@notn.co m> wrote in message
news:Os******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P14.phx.gbl... Hello,
I'd like to have the following structure in my XML file
<lname, _fname, _minit>
<status>it is all good</status>
</lname, _fname, _minit>
But apparently, there is a problem with commas and underscores being in
the key name of the node. How can I escape it?
Thanks.
But I can still escape spaces as _x0020_ and comma= _x002c_
Can't I use those in element names?
Mike Schilling wrote: "Frank Rizzo" <fr****@notn.co m> wrote in message
news:Os******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P14.phx.gbl... Hello,
I'd like to have the following structure in my XML file
<lname, _fname, _minit>
<status>it is all good</status>
</lname, _fname, _minit>
But apparently, there is a problem with commas and underscores being in
the key name of the node. How can I escape it?
You can't; those characters are not legal in element names. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags for the exact rules, but
roughly:
1. The first character must be a letter or an underscore
2. The rest can be a letter, a digit, an underscore, a dot, or a dash
The BNF expansions list colons too, but nowadays colons are reserved for
expressing namespaces.
Can you use dots instead of commas?
Frank Rizzo <fr****@notn.co m> wrote: But I can still escape spaces as _x0020_ and comma= _x002c_
Can't I use those in element names?
You can, but you'll have to unescape them yourself.
As Peter said, you shouldn't really be doing this - it very much feels
like you're using the element name to store data rather than just to
identify data.
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Don't let the web page quoted about mislead you. If you do that, it's not
"escaping" in the sense that C# escapes backslash as \\.. It's not a
standard, and no program, other than anything you might write, will see a
relationship between space and _x0020_.
"Frank Rizzo" <fr****@notn.co m> wrote in message
news:eV******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP14.phx.gbl... But I can still escape spaces as _x0020_ and comma= _x002c_
Can't I use those in element names?
Mike Schilling wrote: "Frank Rizzo" <fr****@notn.co m> wrote in message
news:Os******** *****@TK2MSFTNG P14.phx.gbl... Hello,
I'd like to have the following structure in my XML file
<lname, _fname, _minit>
<status>it is all good</status>
</lname, _fname, _minit>
But apparently, there is a problem with commas and underscores being in
the key name of the node. How can I escape it?
You can't; those characters are not legal in element names. See
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#sec-starttags for the exact rules, but
roughly:
1. The first character must be a letter or an underscore
2. The rest can be a letter, a digit, an underscore, a dot, or a dash
The BNF expansions list colons too, but nowadays colons are reserved for
expressing namespaces.
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