Question

I’m facing a problem that Google couldn’t solve yet!

I’m trying to store URLs in an XML file. Problem is that these URLs contain Equal Signs (=) in them. And that generates an error.

Here is my code: (**token is a variable that contains the URL)

Dim child As String = vbCrLf & "<Link URL='" & token & "'></Link>"
Dim fragment As XmlDocumentFragment = doc.CreateDocumentFragment
fragment.InnerXml = child

The error message: (Error line and position are meaningless here)

‘=’ is an unexpected token. The expected token is ‘;’. Line 2, position 133.

I’ve replaced all ‘&’ symbols with ‘&amp’ in case they were the ones causing the error, but no luck so far.

Answer 1

Try adding this line below the first line:

-- insert this line; should make the "=" sign safe for XML...
token = System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(token)

Dim child As String = vbCrLf & "<Link URL='" & token & "'></Link>"
Dim fragment As XmlDocumentFragment = doc.CreateDocumentFragment
fragment.InnerXml = child