encoding problem

[z. f.]

i have xml with the line
<VAL ID="artist" VAL="abc & cde"/>

i need the & character to be there but the xmlDocument Load method throw exception for invalid character.

i don't want to encode the string, can this be done?

using some kind of cofiguration on the XMLDoc object?

TIA, z.

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

z. f. wrote:

i have xml with the line

<VAL ID="artist" VAL="abc & cde"/>

i need the & character to be there but the xmlDocument Load method throw
exception for invalid character.

i don't want to encode the string, can this be done?

Nope. < and & characters must be escaped in XML. Any API that builds XML
is doing that already, so you better generate XML using some XML API
such as XmlTextWriter class.

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

[Benny Tordrup]

Oleg,

Is it possible to make the XmlTextWriter escape other characters (especially
@, >, ' and ")?

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z. f. wrote:

i have xml with the line

<VAL ID="artist" VAL="abc & cde"/>

i need the & character to be there but the xmlDocument Load method throw
exception for invalid character.

i don't want to encode the string, can this be done?

Nope. < and & characters must be escaped in XML. Any API that builds XML
is doing that already, so you better generate XML using some XML API such
as XmlTextWriter class.

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

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Benny Tordrup wrote:

Is it possible to make the XmlTextWriter escape other characters (especially
@, >, ' and ")?

I don't think so. Why?

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

[Benny Tordrup]

Because I'm working with a project that creates a XML file.

The encoding is required to be "ISO-8859-1". Next, it is requiret that the
characters @ < > & ' " does not occur in the data in the file and must be
escaped by the values (respectively) &at; &lt; &gt; &amp; &apos; &quot;

I'm writing the XMLDocument using a XmlTextWriter with the encoding set to
ISO-8859-1.
The encoding does not handle theese character escapings (it does handle
escaping of &, which destroys my tries to do a search and replace of the
characters).

I've managed to solve it by using the WriteRaw method of the XmlTextWriter,
but this forces me to use the XmlTextWriter object constantly instead of
adding nodes to the XmlDocument instance and then writing this instance to a
file using the XmlTextWriter object.

Benny
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Benny Tordrup wrote:

Is it possible to make the XmlTextWriter escape other characters
(especially @, >, ' and ")?

I don't think so. Why?

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