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I'm reading an XML document and creating a CMS Posting for eacho specific
node but i'm trying to save the posting using the title as Posting.Name.
For this to work i have to remove all special caracters that the Name
propertie doesn't support.

Can anyone hellp me?

Thanks

Jul 21 '05 #1
4 2013
For this to work i have to remove all special caracters that the Name
propertie doesn't support.


And what characters are "special"?

Mattias

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Jul 21 '05 #2
Characters like "/#$%&()=' or even á é õ
This are a few examples.
"Mattias Sjögren" wrote:
For this to work i have to remove all special caracters that the Name
propertie doesn't support.


And what characters are "special"?

Mattias

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Jul 21 '05 #3
Ricardo Jesus <Ri**********@d iscussions.micr osoft.com> wrote:
Characters like "/#$%&()=' or even ? ? ?
This are a few examples.


A few examples aren't enough though - you need to have a very precise
specification of which characters are allowed and which aren't.
Otherwise you won't be able to write the code, and if you *could* write
the code, you wouldn't know whether or not it does what it should.

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Jul 21 '05 #4
I've solved this problem, thanks everyone

"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" wrote:
Ricardo Jesus <Ri**********@d iscussions.micr osoft.com> wrote:
Characters like "/#$%&()=' or even ? ? ?
This are a few examples.


A few examples aren't enough though - you need to have a very precise
specification of which characters are allowed and which aren't.
Otherwise you won't be able to write the code, and if you *could* write
the code, you wouldn't know whether or not it does what it should.

--
Jon Skeet - <sk***@pobox.co m>
http://www.pobox.com/~skeet
If replying to the group, please do not mail me too

Jul 21 '05 #5

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