On Tue, 24 Jun 2014 16:36:11 +0200
"Adrien Prokopowicz" <adrien.prokopow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Le Tue, 17 Jun 2014 01:37:49 +0200, B Bruen <bbr...@paddys-hill.net> a
> écrit:
>
> > (I'm sure I've done this before, but I can't find my prior code nor can
> > I find it in either of the help sites.)
> >
> > I just want to set a string variable to the text content of an element.
> > I am almost certain there was a way to have it automatically convert all
> > the "special character"s, like  , <, etc etc to their "normal"
> > representation. Is there such a function, or was I just dreaming?
> >
> > tia
> > Bruce
> >
>
> (Sorry about the late answer, I was quite busy these last few months ...)
>
> The XmlNode.TextContent property is actually what you're looking for : it
> defines the node's text content without these entities. For example, this
> little code :
>
> Dim doc As New XmlDocument
>
> doc.FromString("<xml>Fish & chips</xml>") 'This can be doc.Open(),
> doc.Content = "..." or whatever
>
> Print doc.ToString()
>
> Print doc.Root.TextContent
>
> ... will output this :
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><xml>Fish & chips</xml>
> Fish & chips
>
> Moreover, you have the static couple of methods XmlNode.Serialize() and
> XmlNode.Deserialize() that allow you to convert strings back and forth
> between the "with entities" and "without entities" representations.
>
> Regards,
> --
> Adrien Prokopowicz
>
Adrien,
That's what I thought. But now I found my problem.
The special characters are in the attributes of the element, not in the text
content. Here's an example:
(racenode is an XMLElement)
? racenode.Tostring(true)
<Race RaceNo="8" RaceTime="2014-06-25T15:55:00" RaceName="C,G&E 0 - 68
HANDICAP" Distance="1211" WeatherChanged="N" WeatherCond="3"
WeatherDesc="Showery" TrackChanged="N" TrackCond="5" TrackDesc="Heavy">
( inner content excised )
</Race>
I'm looking at a bit of code that is:
$title = raceNode.Attributes["RaceName"]
which ends up with the raw value, viz
C,G&E 0 - 68 HANDICAP
Is there a way to get an attribute value "de-specialed"?
tia
Bruce
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