Question

i am parasing xml file to dataset.I getting error if xml data contain “&” or some special char how to remove that?

How to remove “&” from below tag?

xml

 < department departmentid=1 name="pen & Note" >

$

    string departmentpath = HostingEnvironment.MapPath("~/App_Data/Department.xml");
    DataSet departmentDS = new DataSet();

    System.IO.FileStream dpReadXml = new System.IO.FileStream(departmentpath, System.IO.FileMode.Open);

    try
    {
        departmentDS.ReadXml(dpReadXml);

    }
    catch (Exception ex)
    {
        //logg
    }

Answer 1

The code seems to be C#. But do add the correct language tag!

There are five special characters that often require escaping within XML documents. You can read this SO question.

There are two possibilities:

• Let your DataSet::ReadXML method handle these special characters [Recommended]
• Change all special characters from your input files [Not recommended]

The second method is not recommended since you cannot possibly always control the incoming data (and you probably would be wasting time pre-processing them if you do want to). In order for ReadXML to properly parse the special characters you will need to define a proper encoding too in your input XML.