Parsing an XML string containing " " (which must be preserved)
- by Zoodor
I have code that is passed a string containing XML. This XML may contain one or more instances of   (an entity reference for the blank space character). I have a requirement that these references should not be resolved (i.e. they should not be replaced with an actual space character).
Is there any way for me to achieve this?
Basically, given a string containing the XML:
<pattern value="[A-Z0-9 ]" />
I do not want it to be converted to:
<pattern value="[A-Z0-9 ]" />
(What I am actually trying to achieve is to simply take an XML string and write it to a "pretty-printed" file. This is having the side-effect of resolving occurrences of   in the string to a single space character, which need to be preserved. The reason for this requirement is that the written XML document must conform to an externally-defined specification.)
I have tried creating a sub-class of XmlTextReader to read from the XML string and overriding the ResolveEntity() method, but this isn't called. I have also tried assigning a custom XmlResolver.
