Question

I am having a very hard time trying to write out an xml file from asp vbscript to a text file using the Scripting.FileSystemObject. The issue is the less than and greater than chars. In order for me to add these characters to variables in the code i need to use &lt ; &gt ;. This causes a problem when writing the text. The results look like this

<copyright>request copyright</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>10/26/2012</lastBuildDate>

proper format should be as such

<copyright>request copyright</copyright>
<lastBuildDate>10/26/2012</lastBuildDate>

Is there some sort of trick to converting those segments while writing the text file, or do i need to do something a bit more extravagant?

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

When writing in the TextStream, you could just surround your variables with two calls to Replace

TextStream.Write Replace(Replace(myString, "&lt;","<"),"&gt;",">")

This way the variables aren’t altered, but the written out data uses the right characters.