Why xml being excaped in xmldocument?

[Adam Smith]

Hello, I have a file:

test.txt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<First>
<value>3</value>
</First>

I am reading it like this:

XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.Load("test.txt")

If I do an xml.OuterXml, I get
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<First>
<value>3</value>
</First>

How do I get rid of the "\" character?

Thanks in advance.

Adam Smith

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[Chris Barber]

That's not really in there (if you open the document in Notepad you'll see),
it's just a visual effect of the method you are using to display the XML
string (eg. same as output to the debug window in Visual Interdev for
JavaScript strings). The '\' is short for 'the next character is usually a
special character in my string representation so I'll escape it in the
output as a visual aid'.

Chris.

"Adam Smith" <ad*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
Hello, I have a file:

test.txt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<First>
<value>3</value>
</First>

I am reading it like this:

XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.Load("test.txt")

If I do an xml.OuterXml, I get
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<First>
<value>3</value>
</First>

How do I get rid of the "\" character?

Thanks in advance.

Adam Smith

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[Daniel Cazzulino [MVP XML]]

Yup... this will be fixed in Whidbey AFAIK

"Chris Barber" <ch***@blue-canoe.co.uk.NOSPAM> wrote in message
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That's not really in there (if you open the document in Notepad you'll see), it's just a visual effect of the method you are using to display the XML
string (eg. same as output to the debug window in Visual Interdev for
JavaScript strings). The '\' is short for 'the next character is usually a
special character in my string representation so I'll escape it in the
output as a visual aid'.

Chris.

"Adam Smith" <ad*********@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:u4**************@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
Hello, I have a file:

test.txt:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<First>
<value>3</value>
</First>

I am reading it like this:

XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
xml.Load("test.txt")

If I do an xml.OuterXml, I get
<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>
<First>
<value>3</value>
</First>

How do I get rid of the "\" character?

Thanks in advance.

Adam Smith

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