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element.InnerXml += "<tag>";
will produce a runtime error. Any text assigned to InnerXml
must be well formed.
Dan
On 24 Sep 2002 at 9:00, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
> At 2:22 PM +0000 9/22/02, Arjun Ray wrote:
>
>
> >Note that the issue only comes up if one insists on writing tags in
> >strings. That's the broken idea we need to get away from (because you
> >can't test the string for wellformedness before runtime, and by that time
> >the programmers have gone home, the product has shipped, and others are
> >footing the bills.)
>
>
> Atjun explained this to me last night at dinner, and I think I see
> where he's coming from. The problematic ocnstruct is not this:
>
> element.InnerXml = "<tag>" + "content" + "</tag>";
>
> It's this:
>
> element.InnerXml += "<tag>";
> element.InnerXml += "content";
> element.InnerXml += "</tag>";
>
> Is this legal? Can you append parts of an element to InnerXML in
> successive statements? I don't have a Windows development environment
> handy to check.
> --
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