XmlTextWriter

[wiss.dev]

Hi,
in the text file i get &lt; names &gt; how to get <names>



Dim xmlDoc As XmlDocument = New XmlDocument
xmlDoc.LoadXml(ds.GetXml)
Dim Output As New XmlTextWriter(fileLoc, System.Text.Encoding.Default)

<?xml version="1.0" standalone="yes"?>
<NewDataSet>
<xml>
<XML_F52E2B61-18A1-11d1-B105-00805F49916B>&lt; names &gt;&lt; name="Sam"/&gt;

thanks

[jmcilhinney]

The reason would be that you're writing XML as values in an XML file. If you want to save a DataSet to an XML file then you simply call the WriteXml method of the DataSet.

[wiss.dev]

Im actualy doing an sql xml query so the data is returned in xml format, i also tried using ds.writeXml() method, nothing changed though

[jmcilhinney]

OK then, what you're getting is exactly what you should be getting. If you're writing XML inside XML then that's what you'll get. Obviously you can't have chevrons inside chevrons, e.g.

<someElement value="<someValue>">

The inner data has to be escaped and that's why you see &lt; and &gt;. That's the way it works so that's what you get. If you replace them with < and > then you will not have valid XML.