XmlReader.ReadString and not resolving entities

PauloMN

Hope this is the right place for this.

In a nutshell, I'm trying to read an XML file in VB using XmlReader.ReadString method. Tool is working fine, except that the ReadString method is resolving/converting entities, which I do not want it to do.

So if I have a string in the XML like:
PauloMN>Boards

it's being read in as:
PauloMN>Boards

Have looked and looked, and can't see a way to specify that entities should not be resolved i.e. I want the original string exactly as contained in the XML file.

There has to be a flag somewhere I can just set to avoid this behaviour. Any ideas anyone? Thanks!

Sean^DCT4

Can't say for sure without seeing the code and xml file. It could be because the value is an XML escape character.

Have you tried something like:

Dim mVal As String = SecurityElement.Escape(xmlReader.Value)

MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.security.securityelement.escape.aspx

Or you could try setting the encoding of the stream reader:

Using rdr As XmlReader = XmlReader.Create(New StreamReader(fileName, Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-9")))
	While r.Read()
		Console.WriteLine(rdr.Value)
	End While
End Using

Giblet

Maybe CDATA will help you here

neil_hosey

if you cant find a solution, an easy workaround would be to encode the data before using it, as thats it is doing, its decoding it..

the xmlreader is decoding it, you dont want that, so just re-encode it.

dim a as string = Encoder.HtmlEncode(text)