Hi There,

I was wondering how I can save special characters to my xml document, at the
moment when I save something like the special character for pounds "£"
it gets saved to the xml document like "£". I was wondering how I can keep
the same format. for example if I save a character like "#8359;", when I
save it it turns into "#8359;". How can I stop this from happening ?

I have a select list that contains all of the currency codes.

Thanks in advance

'asp code

set OldcurrencyNode = objHdl.childNodes(11)
Set NewcurrencyNode = objXML.createElement("defaultcurrency")
Set NewcurrencyText = objXML.createTextNode(Request.Form("currency"))
NewcurrencyNode.appendChild(NewcurrencyText)
objHdl.replaceChild NewcurrencyNode, OldcurrencyNode

<select name="currency">
<option value="$">Australian Dollars</option>
<option value="$">United States Dollar</option>
<option value="£">United Kingdom Pounds</option>
<option value="$">Canada Dollars</option>
<option value="Â¥">China Yuan Renmimbi</option>
<option value="#8355;">France Francs</option>
<option value="DEM">Germany Deutche Marks</option>
<option value="$">Hong Kong Dollars</option>
<option value="£">Ireland Punt</option>
<option value="#8356;">Italy Lira</option>
<option value="Â¥">Japan Yen</option>
<option value="NLG">Netherlands (Dutch) Guilders</option>
<option value="$">New Zealand Dollars</option>
<option value="$">Singapore Dollars</option>
<option value="SAR">South Africa Rand</option>
<option value="#8359;">Spain Pesetas</option>
<option value="SEK">Sweden Krona</option>
<option value="#8355;">Switzerland Francs</option>


Regards,
Sean

If I understand correctly the problem is caused by you using an incorrect encoding. How exactly are you saving the document?

Joe (MVP - xml)

Hi Joe,

When I save the XML document I just gather the information from all of the hiddden form fields and then use the following.

objXML.Save(Server.mappath("xml/payments.xml"))

It could be done but why would you want to? You would have to double encode the symbols. This probably won't show well on a web page so I'll put asterisks between characters which you'll need to remove:
As I said I'm not sure why you want this, if the sysmbols don't appear correctly it's because the file has a mismatched encoding with the declared one or the receiving reader handles it improperly.

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Joe