"barney" <b-******@gmx.net> wrote in message news:dd**************************@posting.google.c om...
I've got the problem that the following expression:
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<Comment>'Depot'</Comment>
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gets converted to
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<Comment>'Depot'</Comment>
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and the parser of another Company refuses to parse my Xml - File :-(
Have you tried wrapping the output filename that you pass to the
XmlDocument::Save( ) method in an XmlTextWriter that substitutes
the ' and " back into the text nodes that get written?
- - - KeepEntityXmlTextWriter.cs
using System;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
public class KeepEntityXmlTextWriter : XmlTextWriter
{
private static readonly string[ ] ENTITY_SUBS = new string[] { "'", """ };
private static readonly char[ ] REPLACE_CHARS = new char[] { '\'', '"' };
private bool insideAttribute;
public KeepEntityXmlTextWriter( string filename) : base( filename, null) { ; }
public override void WriteStartAttribute( string prefix, string localName, string ns)
{
this.insideAttribute = true;
base.WriteStartAttribute( prefix, localName, ns);
}
private void WriteStringWithReplace( string text)
{
string[ ] textSegments = text.Split( KeepEntityXmlTextWriter.REPLACE_CHARS);
if ( textSegments.Length > 1 )
{
for( int pos = -1, i = 0; i < textSegments.Length; ++i)
{
base.WriteString( textSegments[ i]);
pos += textSegments[ i].Length + 1;
// Assertion: Replace the following if-else when the number of
// replacement characters and substitute entities has grown
// greater than 2.
Debug.Assert( 2 == KeepEntityXmlTextWriter.REPLACE_CHARS.Length );
if ( pos != text.Length )
{
if ( text[ pos ] == KeepEntityXmlTextWriter.REPLACE_CHARS[ 0])
base.WriteRaw( KeepEntityXmlTextWriter.ENTITY_SUBS[ 0]);
else
base.WriteRaw( KeepEntityXmlTextWriter.ENTITY_SUBS[ 1]);
}
}
}
else base.WriteString( text);
}
public override void WriteString( string text)
{
if ( this.insideAttribute )
base.WriteString( text);
else
this.WriteStringWithReplace( text);
this.insideAttribute = false;
}
}
- - -
This specialized XmlTextWriter replaces ' and " in the XML written to a file
(hardcoded to UTF-8 encoding above, but you can add additional ctors)
when these characters appear in child text nodes. It doesn't touch these
characters when they appear in attribute values (depending on an attr's
quote character, one or the other character entity references may be
necessary for escapement). A WriteString( ) will occur after an Write-
StartAttribute( ) if the WriteString( ) is emitting an attribute value, so I
raise a flag in the overload of WriteStartAttribute( ) to detect this scenario.
Everytime WriteString( ) is called, it resets the flag.
When the presence of one or more of these replacement characters are
observed, the fragments of the text not containing these characters are
passed up to the base XmlTextWriter's WriteString( ) to emit them with
any necessary substitutions (like ampersand). To prevent XmlTextWriter
from converting the "'" and """ entities into "&apos;" and
"&quot;" respectively, these must be written out using WriteRaw( )
to sidestep this conversion from happening.
If this other parser vendor's implementation of other characters gives you
further trouble, the KeepEntityXmlTextWriter should be straightforward to
extend for additional replacement characters and char entity ref substitutes.
Derek Harmon
