XMLPort - Export Ampersand character

nav_student

Hi guys,

I've got an XMLPORT( Encoding: UTF-8) that needs to export an URL that contains an ampersand but the output data is converting the & symbol into this data
-->&amp

My attempts were:

Char1 := 38; URL := TextAA + FORMAT(Char1) + TextZZ

URL := TextAA + '&' + TextZZ

with the same result
<TextLine>TextAA&ampTextZZ</TextLine>


Any ideas?

vaprog

That's correct. If it wasn't converted like that, the resulting XML file would be invalid.
An XML reader will convert it back and present it to the consumer correctly.
XML is not meant to be consumed by text utilities, but by an XML processor.

RockWithNAV

And this is the correct behaviour what system is doing.

Check this out - http://xml.silmaril.ie/specials.html