reading xml issue in c#

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hi

i am reading a xml file iam pasting the part of it

XML

<Command>CHECK</Command>
            <ECUSignalName></ECUSignalName>
            <ECUSignalValue>KeyPosition1 == KeyPosition1&&Sleep_flag2 == Sleep_flag2&&</ECUSignalValue>
            <ECUSignalComment></ECUSignalComment>

but when it com to readin this
line
KeyPosition1 == KeyPosition1&&Sleep_flag2 == Sleep_flag2&&

it throwing error..
An error occurred while parsing EntityName
please help me on this
iam using
xmlReader.ReadElementContentAsString();
this for reading

Posted 22-Jan-14 0:58am

rahuls1

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Richard MacCutchan 22-Jan-14 7:10am

The & characters need to be escaped as &, or enclosed in a <![CDATA[ ... ]]> block.

Karthik_Mahalingam 22-Jan-14 7:11am

post your c# code..

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Pete O'Hanlon · Answer 1 · 2014-01-22T01:10:00

Solution 1

The reason you are getting this issue is because & is a special character in XML. It indicates an escape sequence, so it normally precedes things like < and the likes. You will either have to wrap this value in a CDATA, or you will have to convert each & into &

Posted 22-Jan-14 1:10am

Pete O'Hanlon