XML Serialization

[lazygenius]

I have a class which I am using XML Serialization with, something like:

public class MyObj
{
[XmlAttributeAtt ribute(DataType ="string", AttributeName=" Text")]
public string text;

[XmlAttributeAtt ribute(DataType ="boolean", AttributeName=" Allow")]
public bool allow;
}

All works fine until I have a string that contains a backslash in the text
member. For some reason, in this case, the XML Serializaer doesn't output
this member. Can anyone tell me what I need to do to get this to work please?

What I want to do is to be able to specify regular expressions in the program
and save them to a user file.



Many thanks in advance.

[dickster]

Re: XML Serialization

I cannot regenerate this error - Got this to work

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ibm85 0"?>
<MyObj xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" Text="Dick\ster "
Allow="true" />


Dickster

[lazygenius]

Re: XML Serialization

Thanks for the reply Dickster. The only difference i've got is that the
encoding is "utf-8" in my XML file- maybe that's something to do with it?

[dickster]

Re: XML Serialization

I had been serialising to the Console - which I didn't seem to be able
to set to UTF-8

however when I serialise to a file

------------------------------------------------------------------
Dim tw As New System.Xml.XmlT extWriter( _
New System.IO.FileS tream("C:\Dicks ter.xml", System.IO.FileM ode.Create),
_
New System.Text.UTF 8Encoding(True) )

XmlSerializerOb j.Serialize(tw, Obj)
------------------------------------------------------------------

I get the following in the output file C:\Dickster.xml
------------------------------------------------------------------
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><MyObj
xmlns:xsd="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http ://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" Text="Dick\ster "
allow="true" />
------------------------------------------------------------------

Dickster

(PS: I use VB.NET but this should have no relevance to the problem)