XMLTextReader - Issue with special characters &,<,>

[RJN]

Hi

I'm using XMLTextReader to parse the contents of XML. I have issues when
the xml content itself has some special characters like & ,> etc.

<CompanyName>Johnson & Jhonson</CompanyName>
<EmployeeStrength>> 1000</EmployeeStrength>

When I do a Xmltextreader.read() and then check the contents of the xml
node by XmltextReader.ReadString(), I get an exception when I have
special characters. How do I handle this?

Thanks

rjn


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[Martin Honnen]

RJN wrote:

I'm using XMLTextReader to parse the contents of XML. I have issues when
the xml content itself has some special characters like & ,> etc.

<CompanyName>Johnson & Jhonson</CompanyName>
That is not XML then, in XML you need to escape the ampersand as &amp;
(& a m p ;) if it is not the start of a character or entity reference.
<EmployeeStrength>> 1000</EmployeeStrength>

That should not be a problem, a less than '<' has to be escaped as &lt;
but '<' should work and works for me:

const string exampleXML =
"<EmployeeStrength>> 1000</EmployeeStrength>";
XmlTextReader xmlTextReader = new XmlTextReader(new
StringReader(exampleXML));
while (xmlTextReader.Read()) {
if (xmlTextReader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element &&
xmlTextReader.Name == "EmployeeStrength")
{
Console.WriteLine("EmployeeStrength content: {0}.",
xmlTextReader.ReadElementString());
}
}
xmlTextReader.Close();

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