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app.config XML

I'm trying to put some useful strings for my application into an
app.config file so I can edit them without having to re-compile, namely
my connection string and query strings.

However, when my application loads the file, it seems to be blowing up
at any point where the query strings have a < or a character. Is
there something I need to do to escape these characters and/or other
special characters in the XML?
-David
Jul 11 '06 #1
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David P. Donahue <dd******@ccs.neu.eduwrote:
I'm trying to put some useful strings for my application into an
app.config file so I can edit them without having to re-compile, namely
my connection string and query strings.

However, when my application loads the file, it seems to be blowing up
at any point where the query strings have a < or a character. Is
there something I need to do to escape these characters and/or other
special characters in the XML?
This probably isn't the proper forum, but here you go.

&lt; < less than
&gt; greater than
&amp; & ampersand
&apos; ' apostrophe
&quot; " quotation mark

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Jul 11 '06 #2
This probably isn't the proper forum, but here you go.
>
&lt; < less than
&gt; greater than
&amp; & ampersand
&apos; ' apostrophe
&quot; " quotation mark
Oh, so it's the same as in HTML? I guess I should have tried that :)
Thanks!
Jul 11 '06 #3
No, it's not the same as HTML. It's similar. In some cases, it's quite
different.

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Kevin Spencer
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"David P. Donahue" <dd******@ccs.neu.eduwrote in message
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>This probably isn't the proper forum, but here you go.

&lt; < less than
&gt; greater than
&amp; & ampersand &apos; ' apostrophe
&quot; " quotation mark

Oh, so it's the same as in HTML? I guess I should have tried that :)
Thanks!

Jul 11 '06 #4
Kevin Spencer <uc*@ftc.govwrote:
No, it's not the same as HTML. It's similar. In some cases, it's quite
different.
Indeed. The grand daddy of XML:

1.0 http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/
1.1 http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/

Of course ... these are just "recommendations" :-)

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