innerText of xml doc

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martin

Hi,

I would like to write the text of an element to an xml doc as that it look
like this

<Address>&quot;Marty Jones&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt;</Address>

however I can't seen to get the quote marks to come out correctly

the innertext property will change
"<" to &lt;
">" to &gt;

but not " to &quot;

when I write &quot; in the innerText string I get &amp;quot;

I tried to use innerXml instead of innertext but it didn't like that, I
guess because I am not inserting into a cdata section.

my failed attempts are below,

_message.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("Addresses/Address").InnerText =
"&quot;Marty Jones&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt;";
<Address>&amp;quot;Marty Jones&amp;quot;
&amp;lt;[email protected]&amp;gt;</Address>

_message.DocumentElement.SelectSingleNode("Addresses/Address").InnerText =
"\"Marty Jones\" <[email protected]>";
<Address>"Marty Jones" &lt;[email protected]&gt;</Address>

any help is appreciated

cheers

martin.
 
Xml knows nothing about &quot; so it is unable to process this entity. You
might take a look at the HtmlEncode and HtmlDecode methods which might work
on these entities.
 
you can not do it with InnerText.

when you set innerText, it only quotes the chars it needs to. it does not
need to convert " to &quot as quotes are legal between tags. if you want to
control the quoting, then innerHtml is the answer

-- bruce (sqlwork.com)
 
Thats fine,

so why is & being changed to &amp;

and < to &lt; , > to &gt;

but not " to &quot;

all I want is for &quot to appear in the element, the trouble is it always
change a & to &amp;

I'll try HTML encode but I'm not holding out much hope cause they'll still
be a & in the expression.

cheers

martin.
 
Hi bruce,

Can you give an exemple of using innerHTML please,

I am using xmldocument class and this is not a member,
I can't see any other innerhtml property, perhaps I am missing something.

cheers

martin.
 
Try the .xml property.

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Hi Eric,

Thanks for the reply, but where will I find this .xml property.

I am using xmldocument and this does not have an xml property.
It has an innerXML property but this does not meet my needs. ("&quot;" still
get output as "&amp;quot;" and this is not what I require)

I need to have the string "&quot;" appear in <address><address> tags as

<Addresses>
<Address>&qout;Somebody's Name&quot; &lt;[email protected]&gt;</Address>
</Addresses>


if you could show me sample code to produce the above fragment then I would
very much appreciate it. My attempt is below.

cheers

martin.

Imports System.IO

Imports System.Xml

Module Module1

Sub Main()

Dim xmlDoc As New XmlDocument

Dim xmlElemAddress As XmlNode

Dim root As XmlElement

Try

xmlDoc.LoadXml("<Addresses/>")

xmlElemAddress = xmlDoc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "Address", "")

xmlElemAddress.InnerText = "&quot;Somebody's Name&quot; <me@webs>"

root = xmlDoc.DocumentElement

root.AppendChild(xmlElemAddress)

xmlDoc.Save(Console.Out)

Catch ex As Exception

Console.WriteLine("***ERROR***")

Console.WriteLine(ex.Message.ToString())

Finally

End Try

End Sub

End Module
 
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