How to store special characters in xml

Question

I save "Children's Music and videos" in xml

so i used the following code to convert special characters

        string str = "Childrenâ€™s Music & videos";
        string temp = HttpUtility.HtmlEncode(str);

but the xml is not readable after saving the encoded value. How to store these special characters in xml

Thank,

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c # xml character-encoding

Timmi 07 Sep 09 at 15:27

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3 answers

Jon Skeet · Answer 1 · 2009-09-07T15:29:53+0000

If you have the correct text on the line to begin with, using the regular XML API should encode everything correctly for you.

I am assuming you have bad text in your lines. See my article Debugging Unicode Problems for suggestions.

warren · Answer 2 · 2009-09-07T15:31:32+0000

I believe you need to store the special character as its numeric representation &<nnnn>;

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See Wikipedia for details - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_XML_and_HTML_character_entity_references

rogeriopvl · Answer 3 · 2009-09-07T15:33:55+0000

You must use a tag <![CDATA[ ]]>

to wrap the text with special characters.

Here's more on CDATA .