Reading an XML file with " and ' as attribute value quotes

[Romout]

Hello,

I am currently working on a build solution for multiple c#/vb projects
and I'm nearly done. There is one single problem remaining:

In case one of the project settings contains a " (double quote ;-),
the attribute's value within the project file will automatically be
surrounded by ' (single quotes). So far so bad - A XmlDocument.Load()
call will now fail with a syntax error exception because there are two
quote characters used within the Xml. How would it be possible to read
such a miss formed XML-file?

Is it possible to write such a smart XmlReader or is there a much
simpler way?

Thank you in advance for your help,

Best regards,
Ramin Dalkouhi

[Oleg Tkachenko]

Romout wrote:

In case one of the project settings contains a " (double quote ;-),
the attribute's value within the project file will automatically be
surrounded by ' (single quotes). So far so bad - A XmlDocument.Load()
call will now fail with a syntax error exception because there are two
quote characters used within the Xml. How would it be possible to read
such a miss formed XML-file?

Why do you think it's not well-formed XML? It does't matter whether
quotes or apostrophes are used in attributes, I mean
<foo attr1="val1" attr2='val2'/>
is perfectly well-formed XML and of course XmlDocument class can load it.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog
Multiconn Technologies, Israel

[Romout]

I've recognized that the problem has nothing to do with ' or ". It's
concerning the way visual studio stores the command line for a pre- or
post build event. In case that the command line contains a <CRLF> or
amp's (&), the entities are only partially created (the amp is not
substituded). Further more, when reopening the project, the string is
not parsed backwards - the entities remain :-(