I have a simple XML document fragment with a euro symbol in it:
[code lang=”xml”]

Lorem ipsˆum dolor sit amet,

[/code]

which I want to load into an XML document.

[code lang=”cpp”]
System.Xml.XmlDocument doc=new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xml);
[/code]

I then output the XML of that doc to see that all is well – alas it is not, It has decided to re-enocde my beautiful numeric entities.
[code lang=”xml”]

Lorem ips€um dolor sit amet,

[/code]

I cannot find a way around this. It still works well, but god damnit . I want my bloody entity references back you bastards. Can anyone please help me. I have tried XMLTextReader and XML streams and all sorts of other google groups induced madness.

Update:

I managed to figure out a way to re-encode the data after it has been loaded into xml (after it has been xslt transformed or just as a string)-
[code lang=”cpp”]
System.Xml.XmlDocument docOut=new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
docOut.LoadXml(xml);
string text = docOut.OuterXml.ToString();

System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder(text.Length);
foreach (char c in text)
{
if (c > 0x0080)
{
sb.Append(“&#”);
sb.Append((int)c);
sb.Append(‘;’);
}
else
{
sb.Append(c);
}
}
Log.logError(” sb.ToString(); = “+sb.ToString()+”\n”);

System.IO.StreamWriter sw = System.IO.File.CreateText(outXMLFile);
sw.Write(sb.ToString());
sw.Flush();
sw.Close();

//docOut.Save(outXMLFile);
[/code]

I’m not too sure but there might be a way to override the OuterXML property of the XMLDocument class. I hope so. For now it works and I am chuffed -now to get back to what weekends are really for, laundry and cleaning drinking 🙂