Special Characters in XML ....

[Harish Kumar]

Hi,

I've written a component in VB which returns addresses as XML string. From
my ASP Page, I make a call to this component for which I'm getting back those
addresses. However the problem comes when there are special characters in
those addresses - like &.

I tried using the XML declaration tag like this on top of my ASP page where
I'm displaying the results -
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-16"?>

Even then I'm getting error because of the presence of special character.
What's wrong here ? Can some one help me please?

Regards,
Harish

[markn]

How are you creating the xml? If you are using a parser to build/parse the
xml document it will convert them for you.

Mark

[Harish Kumar]

I changed the DLL in such a way that it returns just plain string now. In
my ASP page, I've created a data island and load the string output from the
DLL into that Data Island. But still I encounter error when I get special
character - &.

Harish
"markn" <mnuttall@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>How are you creating the xml? If you are using a parser to build/parse
the
>xml document it will convert them for you.
>
>Mark

[MarkN]

What is the error message you are getting and where are you seeing it at.

[Romulus]

"MarkN" <mnuttall@nospam.com> wrote:
>
>What is the error message you are getting and where are you seeing it at.

Did you try using CDATA?

[Harish Kumar]

As I said earlier, now I changed my component in such a way that it returns
pretty ordinary string. Example -

<Recordset>
<row>
<BUSINESSNAME>xyz</BUSINESSNAME>
<ADDRESS>Rosslea</ADDRESS>
</row>
<row>
<BUSINESSNAME>abc & co</BUSINESSNAME>
<ADDRESS>Londonderry</ADDRESS>
</row>
</Recordset>

In my ASP page, I've created a data island. I'm loading in that data island,
the above string returned by COM component. Ultimately I've to display these
addresses in browser for the client.

Ok, Now where I'm getting the error ? I'm getting error while trying to calculate
the Record count of my above created data island. I'm trying to find out
the record count using client side JavaScript like -

var recCount = document.all.item("CUSTSEARCH").recordset.RecordCount;

Now, what is the error message that I'm getting? I'm getting a JavaScript
run time error in my browser (IE 5). The error message doesn't make any sense.


However, I'm getting this error message only when I encounter a special counter.


No, I've not tried CDATA.

Thanks,
Harish





"Romulus" <popsromano@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>"MarkN" <mnuttall@nospam.com> wrote:
>>
>>What is the error message you are getting and where are you seeing it at.
>
>Did you try using CDATA?

[MarkN]

So back to my question - How are you creating the XML in your DLL?

<row>
<BUSINESSNAME>abc & co</BUSINESSNAME>
<ADDRESS>Londonderry</ADDRESS>
</row>

Should be

<row>
<BUSINESSNAME>abc &amp; co</BUSINESSNAME>
<ADDRESS>Londonderry</ADDRESS>
</row>

if you build it using a parser.

[Larry Triezenberg]

If you're building a string rather than using a parser to build the XML you
can either designate CDATA sections OR you need to replace out the special
characters, some of which are:

"&", "&amp;"
"<", "&lt;"
">", "&gt;"
"""", "&quot;"
"'", "&apos;"

A more complete list can be found in the HTML reference guide...

HTH, Larry

"Harish Kumar" <Harishm@MailCity.Com> wrote in message
news:3bf146aa$1@147.208.176.211...

> No, I've not tried CDATA.