RE: Re[2]: How do you un-escape in HTML

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From: Arthur Maloney


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I've traced this back to MSXML4 both sp1 & sp2.

Should it behave like this, or is this a bug of some kind?

In my code: fld is a field in an adodb recordset from an SQL
Server 2000 Database
            eltColumn is a document element MSXML2.IXMLDOMElement


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This is converted to  valid xml content
     strColValue= "allowed on &apos;background-position&apos;"

Which I think is correct XML.


Yes it is, but not to feed into a DOM, which does its own escaping when it
meets the ampersand.

When I look at whats inside using text method.

     ? eltColumn.text
     allowed on &apos;background-position&apos;


Yes, because the text-method would un-escape again.

This agrees with my input.


However when I use the xml method it is double escaped?.

     ?eltcolumn.xml
     <percentage>allowed on
&amp;apos;background-position&amp;apos;</percentage>


And here you get the 'raw' xml data of the node, exactly as you entered it.

(Besides that: the original VB snippet you sent also has a quite dangerous
form of double escaping going on. If you really need to implement your own
routines for this, it would be advisable to escape the ampersands first,
then the others...)

Cheers,

Andreas


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