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How to decode whitespace in XML using c#

I am trying to iterate through an XML document and output the attribute values to a textbox. It almost works fine, but I cannot get it to convert the encoded white space characters to the real thing.
The output looks like:
Logon/Logoff
Successful Network Logon:


I have unsuccessfully tried to google it. There should be some easy way of doing it, but I can't find it. Ideas anyone?

I am using C# Visual Studio 2010 .

XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(textBoxFileName.Text);
while (reader.Read())
{
    if (reader.HasAttributes)
    {
        for (int i = 0; i < reader.AttributeCount; i++)
        {
            reader.MoveToAttribute(i);
            richTextBox1.Text = richTextBox1.Text + reader.Name + "=" + reader.Value + Environment.NewLine;
        }
        reader.MoveToElement();
    }
}

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MikeToole

Can you post some sample source that causes the problem?

MikeToole

Also, do you want to preserve whitespace (newline, tab, etc) or just ignore it?

Member_2_4833272

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The source code is listed above. Below is pasted an XML element containing white space and escape sequences. I want them preserved, that is I want the xA to be interpreted as new line and xD as cariagge return.

<Row EventTime="2009-10-22T08:12:00" EventID="850" EventSource="Security" EventComputer="172.21.10.151" EventUser="NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM" EventType="8" EventDescription="&#xD;&#xA;A port was listed as an exception when the Windows Firewall started. &#xD;&#xA; &#xD;&#xA;Policy origin: Local Policy &#xD;&#xA;Profile used: Domain &#xD;&#xA;Interface: All interfaces &#xD;&#xA;Name: Legato_NetWorker_Agent &#xD;&#xA;Port number: 8031 &#xD;&#xA;Protocol: TCP &#xD;&#xA;State: Enabled &#xD;&#xA;Scope: 10.221.11.111/255.255.255.255"/>

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The XML is generated by sql server so I cannot change how white space is encoded. But I think that you are right. I'll just have to handle the white space conversion myself.

MikeToole

If you can get the xml as a string, S, you can do something like this:
- freely tranlated from the VB, without test, so no guarantees :)

var ms = new System.IO.MemoryStream(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(S.Replace("&#", "&#")));
var xRdr = Xml.XmlReader.Create(ms);
var x = XElement.Load(xRdr);

Then use linq to iterate the attributes:
var result = element.Attributes.ToList.Select(a => String.Format("Name '{0}' Value = '{1}'", a.Name, a.Value)).ToArray();

MikeToole

... woops, that last line ahould have been:

var result = x.Attributes.ToList.Select(a => String.Format("Name '{0}' Value = '{1}'", a.Name, a.Value)).ToArray();