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Perhaps try<br />
src=&lt;%= &quot;<a href="https://www.server1.com/ImageHandler.ashx?code=" rel="ugc">https://www.server1.com/ImageHandler.ashx?code=</a>&quot;&nbsp;&amp; x.ProductCode %&gt;
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Perhaps try
src=<%= "https://www.server1.com/ImageHandler.ashx?code= [https://www.server1.com/ImageHandler.ashx?code=]" & x.ProductCode %>

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I want to use a code block &lt;%= %&gt; to specify a string in a CDATA node of an xml doc. &nbsp;I am using VB.NET, so I am writing the XML directly in the response (VS2008).<br />
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The first example WORKS. &nbsp;The 2nd example DOES NOT. &nbsp;The difference is that I am using a code block to get the Product code for my url in the CDATA text node.<br />
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Ideas? &nbsp;I prefer NOT to create the XML doc itself as I have a whole lot of these to develop and prefer to use the slick VB.NET xml editing feature for the Write method.<br />
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TIA,<br />
Ken<br />

<pre><code id="code-104459">Response.Write(&lt;description&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;img align='left' src='https://www.server1.com/ImageHandler.ashx?code=192932'/&gt;]]&gt;&lt;%= Left(x.ProductDesc, 180) %&gt;...&lt;/description&gt;)  
Response.Write(&lt;description&gt;&lt;![CDATA[&lt;img align='left' src='https://www.server1.com/ImageHandler.ashx?code=&lt;%= x.ProductCode %&gt;'/&gt;]]&gt;&lt;%= Left(x.ProductDesc, 180) %&gt;...&lt;/description&gt;)
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I want to use a code block <%= %> to specify a string in a CDATA node of an xml doc.  I am using VB.NET, so I am writing the XML directly in the response (VS2008).

The first example WORKS.  The 2nd example DOES NOT.  The difference is that I am using a code block to get the Product code for my url in the CDATA text node.

Ideas?  I prefer NOT to create the XML doc itself as I have a whole lot of these to develop and prefer to use the slick VB.NET xml editing feature for the Write method.

TIA,
Ken

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