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escaping special characters with DataSet.WriteXm l?

Howdy,

Is there a way to explicitly escape special characters (particularly &
(&) and ' (')) when writing a data set with the WriteXml
method?

I know this is supposed to happen automatically (according to MS), but
in my case, it doesn't. I'm pulling data from MS-SQL with c#, filling
data tables with SqlDataAdapter and a query, adding tables to a
DataSet, then WriteXml to a file.

Special characters aren't getting escaped. Yes, I've confirmed this by
viewing the text directly, not viewing the file through IE, which will
convert entities back to characters. SQLXML bitches about it if I
don't fix the files before trying to BulkLoad.

Any thoughts??

TIA,

Sean G.

Mar 6 '06 #1
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