XmlTextWriter

[Robert Walter]

I am using the XmlTextWriter class to generate some XML however if I
try to do something like

string str = "cost £500";
xtw.WriteElementString("symbol", str);

The £ does not get encoded to £ like it should. I have tried
changing the encoding of it but none of the options (Unicode, UTF8
etc.) perform the encoding correctly.

At the moment I have just replaced the above with

xtw.WriteStartElement("string");
str = "cost £500";
str = str.Replace("£", "£");
xtw.WriteRaw(str);
xtw.WriteEndElement();

Which does the trick but any other characters that need encoding will
have to be added to the str = str.Replace("£", "£"); line. Is
there anything to perform this encoding automatically?

Thanks in advance,

Rob.

[Oleg Tkachenko]

Robert Walter wrote:

I am using the XmlTextWriter class to generate some XML however if I
try to do something like

string str = "cost £500";
xtw.WriteElementString("symbol", str);

The £ does not get encoded to £ like it should.

Why do you think it should do that? What's so special in £ character?
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[Robert Walter]

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Robert Walter wrote:

I am using the XmlTextWriter class to generate some XML however if I
try to do something like

string str = "cost 500";
xtw.WriteElementString("symbol", str);

The does not get encoded to £ like it should.

Why do you think it should do that? What's so special in character?

It should do that 'cause if you put a pound symbol in an XML document
it's not valid.

[Oleg Tkachenko]

Robert Walter wrote:

It should do that 'cause if you put a pound symbol in an XML document
it's not valid.

Not really. Pound symbol is allowed in XML documents as thousands of other
unicode symbols, try yourself: http://www.tkachenko.com/temp/source.xml

The only two symbols must be escaped in XML: & and <.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[Anders Borum]

Hello!

If you specify the correct encoding in the XML document declaration, it'll
display itself as a valid document. Did you try that?

--
venlig hilsen / with regards
anders borum
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