Encoding problem "]" is replaced with "]5D;"

Question

Hi. I´m passing string value to interface in .dll file. This interface puts my string value into xml element (creates XML file). But if my string value contains character like "]", it is replaced with "]5D;"

Any suggestions what should I do differently? It´s seems some kind of coding issue but I can not see that´s going on the interface .dll (perpahs the problem is in the .dll)

Answer 1

Hi GaiusBaltar,

XML file will treat [ or ] as special characters. You could try to use the numeric reference instead as the string value. However as you don't know the implementation of the interface, it's better to contact the developer of the dll for help, probably it's a bug.

&	&
<	&#60;
>	&#62;
[	&#91;
]	&#93;

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Answer 2

"XML file will treat [ or ] as special characters"

Not really, there's no reason for ] to be encoded in xml. The following samples shows that .NET's XmlWriter doesn't do this:

using System;
using System.Xml;

class Program {
    static void Main() {
        using (var w = XmlWriter.Create(Console.Out))
            w.WriteElementString("foo", "[bar]");
    }
}

The output is <foo>[bar]</foo>.

Answer 3

Seems that DLL is trying to encode non-alphanumeric characters, but instead of ‘&#x5D;’ it gives ‘]5D;’. Looks like a problem of DLL, or maybe of the reader. How did you check the generated XML file?