How can i handle Special characters( =) in XML

Question

Hello All

I have some special characters in my data inside xml.So i am getting error to handle them.

<SubFilePath>http://d2coa5o205622p.cloudfront.net/newswatchforweb&amp;amp;autoPlay=true&amp;amp;autoRewind=false&lt;/SubFilePath&gt;

"'=' is an unexpected token. The expected token is '";

I know how to handle other special like "<",">" ,"\"" ,"\'" ,"&" but how can i handle the "="?

I am using c#

Answer 1

Wrap your data inside a CDATA block.

Or use =

see: http://www.theukwebdesigncompany.com/articles/entity-escape-characters.php

Answer 2

If you use one of the XML APIs to write your XML, then there will not be a problem. Use XmlWriter or XElement.

Answer 3

If you have an associated XSL schema, then you should also define this element with the type "anyURI", like this :

<xs:element name = "SubFilePath" type = "xs:anyURI" />

See this book