"kben" <thismailisneverread@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> I'm trying to get some text into an XMLElement that may or may not
> contain markup, and it may or may not contain characters that need
> escaping. I want the special characters escaped, but I want to preserve
> the markup. This is so a user can enter some text with (xml
> compatible) HTML tags and have it render properly (via XSLT) without
> having to know about escaping the ampersand. For example, I want to
> take the text:
>
> "Nice t-shirt <p/> Cool & Stylish"
>
> And put it in an element as such:
>
> <ItemDescription>
> Nice t-shirt <p/> Cool &amp; Stylish
> </ItemDescription>
>
> InnerXML chokes on the ampersand, and innerText escapes the tags. How
> can I do this? I'm "manually" escaping the ampersand (and
> apostrophies) in my code right now, and using innerXML, but it seems
> like this must be a very common thing to want to do, and doing it
> manually is error prone and more complex than it needs to be,
> especially if the text might also have < or > that are not parts of
> tags. I can't find any other properties on XMLElement that will do
> this. There must be a way to do it directly.
>
> --Kyle Bennett
>

kben wrote:
> I'm trying to get some text into an XMLElement that may or may not
> contain markup, and it may or may not contain characters that need
> escaping.

> "Nice t-shirt <p/> Cool & Stylish"

> InnerXML chokes on the ampersand, and innerText escapes the tags.