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William Humphries
William Humphries

Reputation: 568

XML Name Cannot Begin with the "=" Character

I've read through the similar post of % character but it seems the other issues can be solved in the header line. Are there certain characters not allowed in XML or do I need to format the document another way (In my case the "=" character is giving me trouble when trying to read in the document in C#)?

Name cannot begin with the character ' ', also similar but still fixed by header.

XElement nodes = XElement.Load(filename);

The structure of the XML is below:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<offer>
  <data id="Salary">
    <ocrstring>which is equal to $60,000.00 if working 40 hours per week</ocrstring>
    <rule>.*(([+-]?\$[0-9]{1,3}(?:,?[0-9]{3})*\.[0-9]{2}))</rule>
    <output></output>
  </data>
  <data id="Hours">
    <ocrstring></ocrstring>
    <rule>"(?<=working).*?(?=hours)"</rule>    <!-- Error Occurring Here -->
    <output>bob</output>
  </data>
  <data id="Location">
    <ocrstring></ocrstring>
    <rule>Regex2</rule>
    <output>LongWindingRoad222</output>
  </data>
</offer>

ErrorParsingXML

How can I parse the XML Document without getting the Cannot Begin with Character "=" Error

Upvotes: 1

Views: 956

Answers (1)

Yitzhak Khabinsky
Yitzhak Khabinsky

Reputation: 22177

You need to use CDATA sections for all the <rule> elements.

What does <![CDATA[]]> in XML mean?

XML

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<offer>
    <data id="Salary">
        <ocrstring>which is equal to $60,000.00 if working 40 hours per week</ocrstring>
        <rule><![CDATA[.*(([+-]?\$[0-9]{1,3}(?:,?[0-9]{3})*\.[0-9]{2}))]]></rule>
        <output></output>
    </data>
    <data id="Hours">
        <ocrstring></ocrstring>
        <rule><![CDATA["(?<=working).*?(?=hours)"]]></rule>
        <!-- Error Occurring Here -->
        <output>bob</output>
    </data>
    <data id="Location">
        <ocrstring></ocrstring>
        <rule>Regex2</rule>
        <output>LongWindingRoad222</output>
    </data>
</offer>

Upvotes: 5

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