Working With Ampersands

[AJ Brown]

How does one allow the use of ampersands (or other special characters
for that matter) within Element text and Attribute text?

I have problems using LoadXml from a string "<text value="Jack &
Jill"/>" into an XmlDocument.

I can't for the life of me find a switch that turns off this feature of
the parser.

-AJ

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

AJ Brown wrote:

How does one allow the use of ampersands (or other special characters
for that matter) within Element text and Attribute text?

I have problems using LoadXml from a string "<text value="Jack &
Jill"/>" into an XmlDocument.
& in XML must be escaped as &amp;. And < must be escaped as &lt;
I can't for the life of me find a switch that turns off this feature of
the parser.

There is no such one. It's a must.

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Dennis Redfield]

no switch. this part of the xml spec. You must either:
encode/escape the ampersand (and other special characters).
dlr

"AJ Brown" <aj*****************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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How does one allow the use of ampersands (or other special characters
for that matter) within Element text and Attribute text?

I have problems using LoadXml from a string "<text value="Jack &
Jill"/>" into an XmlDocument.

I can't for the life of me find a switch that turns off this feature of
the parser.

-AJ

[Chris Barber]

If you use DOM methods to put the data into the document then the escaping and unescaping will be
done for you.

Using string concatenation and the like forces you to read and adhere to the specs very carefully to
ensure validity of the resultant document (eg. '<' becomes '&lt;' etc.).

Chris.

"AJ Brown" <aj*****************@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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How does one allow the use of ampersands (or other special characters
for that matter) within Element text and Attribute text?

I have problems using LoadXml from a string "<text value="Jack &
Jill"/>" into an XmlDocument.

I can't for the life of me find a switch that turns off this feature of
the parser.

-AJ
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[Bill Kearney]

> How does one allow the use of ampersands (or other special characters for

that matter) within Element text and Attribute text?

I have problems using LoadXml from a string "<text value="Jack & Jill"/>"
into an XmlDocument.

I can't for the life of me find a switch that turns off this feature of
the parser.
Because you can't. There 5 characters that MUST be encoded when used in
XML.

& - &amp;
< - &lt; - &gt;

" - &quot;
' - &apos;

-Bill Kearney

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Bill Kearney wrote:

Because you can't. There 5 characters that MUST be encoded when used in
XML.

& - &amp;
< - &lt;

- &gt;

" - &quot;
' - &apos;

Actually only < and & must be escaped, the rest can be used in native
form too. http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#syntax

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com