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XML Difficulties, unexpected token?

Asked by kidl33t in Visual Basic Programming

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Hello,

I have a program that sends HTML formatted emails.  It reads in an HTML file and inserts variables into span tags that are formatted with IDs.  For example <span id="fname"></span> will get its contents replaced with a users first name.  This all works fine.

The function which does the subbing in is the first one in the code section.  

However, when one of the values to be inserted has an & in it, followed at any distance by an equals ( = ) sign, it throw the exception " '=' is an unexpected token,  The expected token is ';'.  Line 2, position 74. "

The offending line in question is:

<li> <a href="http://www.google.ca/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_en-USCA291&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&... (it continues on)

Where the character in question is the = before the word chrome (incidentally, yes I am playing with Chrome at the moment).  

This bit of code is actually inserting a list of links, and works fine when no &'s are in the links.  I tried URLencoding the links, or just replacing the & with %26, but sadly that breaks the link (at least for google maps).  

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Private Sub replaceSpanContents(ByRef xDoc As Xml.XmlDocument, ByVal id As String, ByVal content As String)
        Dim el As Xml.XmlNodeList = xDoc.SelectNodes("//span[@id='" + id + "']")
        For Each n As Xml.XmlNode In el
 
            Try
                n.InnerXml = content.ToString
            Catch ex As Exception
                MsgBox(ex.Message, MsgBoxStyle.Critical, "XML Exception")
            End Try
        Next
    End Sub
 
Keywords: XML Difficulties, unexpected token?
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1 Replacing token with function
2 Stuts-tokens
3 parsing tokens in a CString
4 XSL: tokenize
5 Tokenize() using xslt2.0
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