Pound sign in XML

[RugbyLeague]

Thanks, any help will be much appreciated

[Reiss]

I had a dig around and couldn't find anything in particular for £ signs - so I created this quick stub and it is working as expected for me

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

XmlNode node = doc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "PoundTest", "Dummy");
node.InnerXml = "£";

doc.AppendChild(node);

doc.Save(@"c:\dummy.xml");

which outputs

£

[RugbyLeague]

Hmm, the issues I am having are in an attribute and I am using XDocument rather than XmlDocument. It's interesting yours works though

[Reiss]

Sorry misread the XDocument bit, just added this to my original stub and it still works though

XmlAttribute elem = doc.CreateAttribute("PoundAttribute");
elem.Value = "£";

node.Attributes.Append(elem);

to give

£

[RugbyLeague]

Thanks. Time to scrap XDocument then :)

[Reiss]

Here you go

XDocument doc = new XDocument();

XElement node = new XElement("PoundTest", "");

XAttribute attrib = new XAttribute("PoundAttribute", "£");

node.Add(attrib);

doc.Add(node);

doc.Save(@"c:\dummy.xml");

which gives

[RugbyLeague]

That works for me too. Curiouser and curiouser. Thanks for your help

[BobJanova]

It's high-bit so you need to encode it, but the XDocument should do that for you (and Reiss's answer would seem to indicate that that is already the case). The named entity is £ but that only applies in HTML, in XML you would have to use £ or set the declared document encoding to ISO-8859-1 (if there are no 2-bit characters) or UTF-8 (encoding the high bit characters appropriately) in the XML header.

[Reiss]

Glad I could help - I lived just outside Garforth for 8 years and had many a good night out in Leeds :-D

[RugbyLeague]

Party central is Leeds although it's a long time since I used to haunt the Phono and the Warehouse

[RugbyLeague]

You helped to fix it. You showed the problem wasn't in XML but in the StreamReader I am using to read the data I build into XML - you have to set Encoding on the StreamReader to Encoding.Default - apparently the default isn't Encoding.Default - Bah!!!

[BobJanova]

Haha yeah I've tripped over this one a few times. The default is UTF8, I believe. Took me a while to work out that to read a Windows-ANSI file (what most of us actually have on our disks) you have to set it to Default explicitly.

[RugbyLeague]

The default it provides isn't default enough apparently :wtf:

[Ennis Ray Lynch Jr]

It took Google years to fix it, finally, (as of this week, they did)

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