how do I Serialize data containing & in it

[jamie]

My data may contain the characters < ,&, and > The system I'm sending
them to wants them to be changed to < & and > respectivily.

So I had gone into the data and was changing them over in the code. However
when they hit the serializer I end up with

&amp;#60; &amp;#38; and &amp;#62;

How can I prevent the serializer from changing this incorrectly?

This is done on the compact framework incase that matters?

[Luke Zhang [MSFT]]

Hello ,

Thank you for posting. Currently we are finding proper resource to assist
you on this issue and will update you as soon as possible.

Thanks,

Luke Zhang
Microsoft Online Community Support

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[Peter Flynn]

jamie wrote:

My data may contain the characters < ,&, and > The system I'm sending
them to wants them to be changed to < & and > respectivily.
It shouldn't need to for > because that's not a markup character,
it's just data when it occurs in normal text; but maybe the target
system doesn't know that.
So I had gone into the data and was changing them over in the code. However
when they hit the serializer I end up with

&amp;#60; &amp;#38; and &amp;#62;

How can I prevent the serializer from changing this incorrectly?

My guess is you shouldn't have changed them at all, because now the
& is being output as &amp;

Before, what were they outputting as?

///Peter
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XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/

[jamie]

I've spoken with them and it turns out their documentation is out of date.
The < & and &#62 was put in place for people manually generating
XML files and not using something like the serializer. They now accept the
standard translation so I can undo my changes.
"Peter Flynn" <pe********@m.silmaril.ie> wrote in message
news:4b*************@individual.net...

jamie wrote:

My data may contain the characters < ,&, and > The system I'm sending
them to wants them to be changed to < & and > respectivily.

It shouldn't need to for > because that's not a markup character,
it's just data when it occurs in normal text; but maybe the target
system doesn't know that.

So I had gone into the data and was changing them over in the code.
However when they hit the serializer I end up with

&amp;#60; &amp;#38; and &amp;#62;

How can I prevent the serializer from changing this incorrectly?

My guess is you shouldn't have changed them at all, because now the
& is being output as &amp;

Before, what were they outputting as?

///Peter
--
XML FAQ: http://xml.silmaril.ie/

[Kevin Yu [MSFT]]

Hi Jamie,

As far as I know the escaping is done automatically by the serializer.
Because these characters have special meaning, we have to change them to
other codes. Please don't change them manually, or the deserialization will
fail.

Kevin Yu
Microsoft Online Community Support

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