XMLDocument character encoding

[Eric Cadwell]

We are encoding strings using XMLElement:

private string XMLEncode(strin g val)
{
if(val.Length == 0)
return string.Empty;
XmlElement element = xmldoc.CreateEl ement("E");
element.InnerTe xt = val;

return element.InnerXm l;
}

The question is what encoding is being used to translate the string? What is
the default encoding for XMLDocument? Is the resultant string in UTF-8,
Unicode, etc...?
Our server side components require ISO-8859-1 so I am now trying to convert
from one char set to another like this:

private string XMLEncode(strin g val)
{
if(val.Length == 0)
return string.Empty;
element = xmldoc.CreateEl ement("E");
element.InnerTe xt = val;

string temp = element.InnerXm l;
byte[] wrong = System.Text.Enc oding.Unicode.G etBytes(temp);
byte[] right = System.Text.Enc oding.Convert(E ncoding.Unicode ,
Encoding.GetEnc oding("ISO-8859-1"), wrong);
string done = Encoding.GetEnc oding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(r ight);

return done;
}

Am I correct in assuming that the encoder is Unicode? Is this a time bomb?
It appears to be working correctly - just seems like a hack!

Thanks;
-Eric

[Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]]

The encoding of all strings in the .NET Framework is UTF-16. This means that
your XMLEncode method is returning a UTF-16 string. The correct thing to do
in this case would be to save the XmlDocument to a stream and specify the
encoding you want on the stream writer.

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"Eric Cadwell" <ec******@ns.in sight.com> wrote in message
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We are encoding strings using XMLElement:

private string XMLEncode(strin g val)
{
if(val.Length == 0)
return string.Empty;
XmlElement element = xmldoc.CreateEl ement("E");
element.InnerTe xt = val;

return element.InnerXm l;
}

The question is what encoding is being used to translate the string? What is the default encoding for XMLDocument? Is the resultant string in UTF-8,
Unicode, etc...?
Our server side components require ISO-8859-1 so I am now trying to convert from one char set to another like this:

private string XMLEncode(strin g val)
{
if(val.Length == 0)
return string.Empty;
element = xmldoc.CreateEl ement("E");
element.InnerTe xt = val;

string temp = element.InnerXm l;
byte[] wrong = System.Text.Enc oding.Unicode.G etBytes(temp);
byte[] right = System.Text.Enc oding.Convert(E ncoding.Unicode ,
Encoding.GetEnc oding("ISO-8859-1"), wrong);
string done = Encoding.GetEnc oding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(r ight);

return done;
}

Am I correct in assuming that the encoder is Unicode? Is this a time bomb?
It appears to be working correctly - just seems like a hack!

Thanks;
-Eric

[Eric Cadwell]

Thanks.
-Eric
"Dare Obasanjo [MSFT]" <da***@online.m icrosoft.com> wrote in message
news:40******** @news.microsoft .com...

The encoding of all strings in the .NET Framework is UTF-16. This means that your XMLEncode method is returning a UTF-16 string. The correct thing to do in this case would be to save the XmlDocument to a stream and specify the
encoding you want on the stream writer.

--
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
"Eric Cadwell" <ec******@ns.in sight.com> wrote in message
news:Ov******** ******@TK2MSFTN GP11.phx.gbl...

We are encoding strings using XMLElement:

private string XMLEncode(strin g val)
{
if(val.Length == 0)
return string.Empty;
XmlElement element = xmldoc.CreateEl ement("E");
element.InnerTe xt = val;

return element.InnerXm l;
}

The question is what encoding is being used to translate the string? What

is

the default encoding for XMLDocument? Is the resultant string in UTF-8,
Unicode, etc...?
Our server side components require ISO-8859-1 so I am now trying to

convert

from one char set to another like this:

private string XMLEncode(strin g val)
{
if(val.Length == 0)
return string.Empty;
element = xmldoc.CreateEl ement("E");
element.InnerTe xt = val;

string temp = element.InnerXm l;
byte[] wrong = System.Text.Enc oding.Unicode.G etBytes(temp);
byte[] right = System.Text.Enc oding.Convert(E ncoding.Unicode ,
Encoding.GetEnc oding("ISO-8859-1"), wrong);
string done = Encoding.GetEnc oding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(r ight);

return done;
}

Am I correct in assuming that the encoder is Unicode? Is this a time

bomb? It appears to be working correctly - just seems like a hack!

Thanks;
-Eric