Problem in dealing with character entity refrences in XML

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  13 years ago

  by okkin

  Nikko

  , Philippines

  Joined 13 years ago

  Hi,

  I tried to manipulating XML files using XmlTextReader which is somewhat new to me. My problem is when an input XML contains character entity references, e.g., ® -- vb.Net automatically resolves it into "®". My question would be: Could there be any way to alter vb.Net's behaviour in order to retain character entity references as it is after processing? How?
  
  Thanks in advance!
  
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  Sample input:
  <doc>
  <p>Smithsonian Institution &#169;</p>
  <p>Science and Technology for Children&#174;</p>
  </doc>
  
  Current output:
  <doc>
  <p id="p1">Smithsonian Institution©</p>
  <p id="p2">Science and Technology for Children®</p>
  </doc>
  
  Desired output:
  <doc>
  <p id="p1">Smithsonian Institution&#183;</p>
  <p id="p2">Science and Technology for Children&#174;</p>
  </doc>
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  

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  13 years ago

  by mmharinath

  M M Harinath

  Chennai, India

  Joined 15 years ago
  ISO Latin code for Copyright symbol is &#169; and &#174; is for Registered. Thats why you are getting that symbol. Instead of & symbol use &amp; ?You will get desired output
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