How to avoid escaping of "<" in value of attribute nodes.

[AnilKumar]

Hi ,
I have char '<' in value of a attribute node , when I serialise this document it is escaped to &lt; . how can I avoid this.
thanks for the help.
Anil.

 

[chiph]

You can't. XML needs certain characters to work, and the '<' is one of them. It should get escaped to '&lt;', and hopefully unescaped back when you read the node's text value. Search the XML specs for &quot;entities&quot;.

Chip H.

 

[westcoaststyle]

I use < in place of the < in a value such as:

for (i = 0; i < itemArray.length; i++)

I put:

for (i = 0; i &-#-6-0; itemArray.length; i++)
TAKE OUT THE DASHES!

and it works just the same and doesn't error out the xml document.

Hope it helps!
It drove me NUTS at first.

 

[chiph]

Thanks for the tip, westcoaststyle.

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Chip H.

 

[westcoaststyle]

Ok Thanks!