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XML Escaping a String?

coconet

5/25/2008 3:01:00 AM


I have a URL like "https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&e...

And I wan to put it in an XML configuration file. Trying to use
HttpUtility to HTML encode it is not enough, I need to "XML Encode"
it, how can I do that?


Thanks.
3 Answers

Jon Skeet

5/25/2008 7:19:00 AM

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coconet <coconet@community.nospam> wrote:
>
> I have a URL like "https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&e...
>
> And I wan to put it in an XML configuration file. Trying to use
> HttpUtility to HTML encode it is not enough, I need to "XML Encode"
> it, how can I do that?

If you want to put it in an XML file, I'd use the XML APIs to create
the XML file in the first place - they will usually take care of all
this for you.

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Mike Urquiola

5/27/2008 2:14:00 PM

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"Jon Skeet [C# MVP]" <skeet@pobox.com> wrote in message
news:MPG.22a3234bc3e39c75cdc@msnews.microsoft.com...
> coconet <coconet@community.nospam> wrote:
>>
>> I have a URL like "https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&e...
>>
>> And I wan to put it in an XML configuration file. Trying to use
>> HttpUtility to HTML encode it is not enough, I need to "XML Encode"
>> it, how can I do that?
>
> If you want to put it in an XML file, I'd use the XML APIs to create
> the XML file in the first place - they will usually take care of all
> this for you.
>

Or you can put whatever you want in a CData section.
<![CDATA[https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&e...]]>

Jon Skeet

5/27/2008 6:28:00 PM

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Mike Urquiola <mike@urquiola.org> wrote:
> >> I have a URL like "https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&e...
> >>
> >> And I wan to put it in an XML configuration file. Trying to use
> >> HttpUtility to HTML encode it is not enough, I need to "XML Encode"
> >> it, how can I do that?
> >
> > If you want to put it in an XML file, I'd use the XML APIs to create
> > the XML file in the first place - they will usually take care of all
> > this for you.
> >
>
> Or you can put whatever you want in a CData section.
> <![CDATA[https://aaaa.aaa/bbb/bbbb/ccc?dd=44&e...]]>

Well, so long as your data doesn't contain ]]>

It makes it harder to read the strings which don't need it, however.
I'm also not sure whether or not it works for attributes. I think it's
generally simpler to use a proper XML API whose job is to hide things
like this.

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