Hyphen in last name

[jojo11]

I have a .net app that pulls in an XML document containing custmer information. The xsd has the last name as xs:string.
When I import into the .NET DOM object, it fails on validation when the last name contains a hyphen.
How can we get around this, with a change to the xsd?

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Ummm, we have a bit of a problem here....

 

[chiph]

You shouldn't have any problems with a hyphen (dash, "-") character. The ones to watch out for are the ampersand "&", single-quote "'", double-quote """, less-than "<", and greater-than ">". These all have predefined entity values in the W3C spec:
[tt][ignore]
' &apos;
" &quot;
& &amp;
> &gt;
< &lt;
[/ignore][/tt]
The supplier of your XML data would use these in place of the original characters. Your parser would then read them and replace them in memory with the originals.

The Microsoft XML 4.0 SP2 parser is pretty tolerant of not having these, but other parsers are much more strict, so you should make an effort to use them in any XML documents you produce for others.

Chip H.


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