How to create xml elements with special chars

[Nimrod Cohen]

Hi,

newbie that i am in .Net, i'm trying to add "D/T" as a new element in C#
:
XmlElement elemAttr =
(XmlElement)m_xmlDoc.AppendChild(m_xmlDoc.CreateEl ement("D/T" ) );

but the framework throws an XmlException ...

how do i overcome this ? do i have to parse the string for special chars
myself ?

please advise,

thanks , nim_co.

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[Peter Rilling]

I don't think that you can. The XML standard limits the characters you can
use (http://www.w3.org/TR/xml11/#dt-element). Just like a compiler would
not allow the character "/" within a variable name.

Why would you want to do that anyway? If you could do what you want, you
would potentially confuse other standards like XPath which uses that symbol.
If you need special characters for presentation purposes, I would suggest
you rely on your code or move that information to an attribute or element
content.

"Nimrod Cohen" <ni****@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Hi,

newbie that i am in .Net, i'm trying to add "D/T" as a new element in C#
:
XmlElement elemAttr =
(XmlElement)m_xmlDoc.AppendChild(m_xmlDoc.CreateEl ement("D/T" ) );

but the framework throws an XmlException ...

how do i overcome this ? do i have to parse the string for special chars
myself ?

please advise,

thanks , nim_co.

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[Nimrod Cohen]

Dear Peter,

I'm aware of the problematic aspect of that but as i vaugely recall
there are special indications for these character ( i.e : if i wanted to
use < i would have put &lt; instead... ) the question is if this is not
usable for the element name, and if so, does .net provides a parser ...

thanks,

Nim_co.
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[Oleg Tkachenko]

Nimrod Cohen wrote:

I'm aware of the problematic aspect of that but as i vaugely recall
there are special indications for these character ( i.e : if i wanted to
use < i would have put &lt; instead... ) the question is if this is not
usable for the element name, and if so, does .net provides a parser ...

In XML 1.0 element name cannot contain character "/" in any form, see
http://www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006#NT-Name
You can use XmlConvert class to encode and decode element names.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
XML Insider
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog

[Bjoern Hoehrmann]

* Nimrod Cohen wrote in microsoft.public.dotnet.xml:

newbie that i am in .Net, i'm trying to add "D/T" as a new element in C#
:
XmlElement elemAttr =
(XmlElement)m_xmlDoc.AppendChild(m_xmlDoc.CreateE lement("D/T" ) );

but the framework throws an XmlException ...
Since "D/T" is not a legal XML element name.
how do i overcome this ? do i have to parse the string for special chars
myself ?

It is (or should be) impossible to overcome this.

[Nimrod Cohen]

can anyone be more descriptive and presumably say :

you can put special characters only in attribute values / inner texts
etc...
or explain what is the use of special character markers ( such as &_lt_;
etc ) if nobody suggested any solution that is using those... ?

isn't there a character that looks like & ?? ; and replaces "/" ??? can
it be used only inside values / inner text or also in names of elements
and attribute ?

Thanks again,

Nim_co.

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[Guinness Mann]

In article <eC**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl>, ni****@hotmail.com
says...

isn't there a character that looks like & ?? ; and replaces "/" ??? can
it be used only inside values / inner text or also in names of elements
and attribute ?

How about / will that do it for you?

There is a minor reference to HTML entities at :
http://www.big-rick.com/ref/asciiref.html

-- Rick