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aherrick
aherrick

Reputation: 20161

C# XDoc Parse XML string

I'm receiving data via an XML API and it's returning a node like the following:

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>

<location>
  <name>&Oslash;L Shop</name>
</location>

I have no control over the response but I am trying to Load it into an XDocument in which it fails due to the invalid character.

Is there anything I can do to make this load properly? I want to keep the solution as general as possible because it is possible other invalid characters exist.

Thoughts?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 480

Answers (3)

James
James

Reputation: 82096

Why not just escape any invalid XML characters before you load the response into an XDocument? You could use a regex for this, should be relatively straight forward.

See escape invalid XML characters in C#

Upvotes: 0

Alex
Alex

Reputation: 8937

You cant use "&" symbol in XDocument.Parse input text. Replace it with "&amp;" , like this

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8' ?>

<location>
  <name>&amp;Oslash;L Shop</name>
</location>

Upvotes: 1

I4V
I4V

Reputation: 35353

You can use html parsers which are more tolerant to invalid inputs. For example; (using HtmlAgilityPack) this code works without any problem.

var doc = new HtmlAgilityPack.HtmlDocument();
doc.LoadHtml(xml);
var name = doc.DocumentNode.Descendants("name").First().InnerText;

Upvotes: 1

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