XMLTextWriter (VB.NET) problem with quotes and brackets

[Dennis Mennis]

I am writing an XML file using XMLTextWriter and running into a problem with
the following code

xtm.WriteAttributeString("subject", fullsubject.Trim)

fullsubject here is a string like "a quick 'brown' fox jumped < over the
"cow" who was sleeping"

The xml file output replaces the " and < etc with stuff like &quot; &lt .
Problem is this file is then read into tnaother program which doesnt
substitute the &quot; &lt with the actual characters they represent.

Is there a way to get past this?

[Stephany Young]

Fix the bug in the other program.
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I am writing an XML file using XMLTextWriter and running into a problem
with the following code

xtm.WriteAttributeString("subject", fullsubject.Trim)

fullsubject here is a string like "a quick 'brown' fox jumped < over the
"cow" who was sleeping"

The xml file output replaces the " and < etc with stuff like &quot; &lt .
Problem is this file is then read into tnaother program which doesnt
substitute the &quot; &lt with the actual characters they represent.

Is there a way to get past this?

[Martin Honnen]

Dennis Mennis wrote:

I am writing an XML file using XMLTextWriter and running into a problem with
the following code

xtm.WriteAttributeString("subject", fullsubject.Trim)

fullsubject here is a string like "a quick 'brown' fox jumped < over the
"cow" who was sleeping"

The xml file output replaces the " and < etc with stuff like &quot; &lt .
That is necessary to have well-formed markup entitled to be called XML,
as < has special meaning (opens a start or end tag) it needs to be
escaped as &lt; (& l t ;) when it doesn't delimit a tag.
Problem is this file is then read into tnaother program which doesnt
substitute the &quot; &lt with the actual characters they represent.

Then the other program can't deal with XML so perhaps you do not want
XML originally.
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