Everything I’ve seen and heard suggests that you should stick to <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset=”UTF-8″> (or whatever character set you actually want). If you want a language associated with the page you can use the “lang” attribute on the <html> tag. Since HTML5 is not XML, really, I personally would find it weird … Read more
There is a good chance that the stream has been parsed correct, just because xmlDoc.toString() will always be “[#document: null]”. This doesn’t indicate, that the DOM tree is empty. Please check first, if the document has some nodes (children). If the DOM really was empty, then I’d first print the content of the input stream … Read more
Unless you have a specific requirement to work with XML 1.1 (which is very rare), you should read the XML 1.0 Recommendation. Tim Bray, one of the original editors of the specification, has created an excellent annotated version of it which you can find at http://www.xml.com/axml/axml.html For a bit more info/opinion on XML 1.1, check … Read more
It might be a bit old thread, but i will post anyway. i had the same problem (needed to deserialize like 10kb of data from a file that had more than 1MB). In main object (which has a InnerObject that needs to be deserializer) i implemented a IXmlSerializable interface, then changed the ReadXml method. We … Read more
Yes, there are issues when you try to insert XML into SQL Server 2008 and the XML contains an encoding instruction line. I typically get around using the CONVERT function which allows me to instruct SQL Server to skip those instructions – use something like this: INSERT INTO testfiles (filename, filemeta) VALUES (‘test.mp3’, CONVERT(XML, N'<?xml … Read more
Try this. Not sure why you need the second doc. foreach (XElement xe in doc.Descendants(“Profile”)) { MessageBox.Show(xe.Element(“username”).Value); }
StringEscapeUtils.unescapeXml(xml) (commons-lang, download)
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No, it’s not OK. Appendix F of the XML spec says: Because each XML entity not accompanied by external encoding information and not in UTF-8 or UTF-16 encoding must begin with an XML encoding declaration, in which the first characters must be ‘< ?xml’, any conforming processor can detect, after two to four octets of … Read more