How can we save special symbols in xml

Question

Hi,

I am saving "Children’s Music & videos" to xml

so i used the following code to convert the special symbols

        string str = "Children’s Music & videos";
        string temp = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(str);

but the xml is not readable after saving the encoded value. How can i save this special symbols to xml

Thanks,

Answer 1

If you have the right text in the string to start with, using the normal XML APIs should encode everything properly for you.

My guess is that you have bad text in your strings. See my Debugging Unicode Problems article for suggestions.

Answer 2

I believe you need to save the special character as its numerical &<nnnn>; representation.

Please see Wikipedia for more - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List%5Fof%5FXML%5Fand%5FHTML%5Fcharacter%5Fentity%5Freferences

Answer 3

You should use the the tag <![CDATA[ ]]> to wrap around text with special characters.

Here's more on CDATA.