Ideas needed: encoding an XML document so that it can be passed in a PARAM attribute of an OBJECT t

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I want to pass a serialized DataSet to a .NET WinForm control on a web page.
I am using a PARAM attribute in the OBJECT tag to pass the serialized string
to the control as follows:

<PARAM name="doc" value="<?xml..........(etc)">

The problem is that the string (the XML document) contains double-quote
characters and that is bad.

What's the best way to encode the string so that it can be succesfully
passed? I can use Base64 encoding but then I have to deal with byte arrays,
performance issues, etc. Is there an easier/better way?
 
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I want to pass a serialized DataSet to a .NET WinForm control on a web page.
I am using a PARAM attribute in the OBJECT tag to pass the serialized string
to the control as follows:

<PARAM name="doc" value="<?xml..........(etc)">

The problem is that the string (the XML document) contains double-quote
characters and that is bad.

What's the best way to encode the string so that it can be succesfully
passed? I can use Base64 encoding but then I have to deal with byte arrays,
performance issues, etc. Is there an easier/better way?
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Either convert to UTF-8 encoded bytes, then base64 encode, or manually
escape all the characters you don't want to be literally embedded, eg
by using \l for <, \g for >, \q for ", \a for ', \r for carriage
return, etc, and \\ for \. This will almost certainly be more work, but
*may* perform better (there's no guarantee though). Are you sure
performance is actually an issue here? I suggest you try the base64 way
first, and see whether that's actually too slow.
 
If the data is static anyway, why not read it from memory on the server or
from a static xml file. No conversion neccessary.

Norman
 
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