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Will Strohl
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04/10/2008 10:48 AM
I have the need to use a & character in one of my excludePaths. Is it safer, more correct, or better to use & or wrap the regex in a CDATA?

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04/10/2008 11:03 AM
For an attribute in an xml file you need to use the entity value & amp; For node data, I prefer the CDATA block so that the literal value is there.

Will Strohl
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04/10/2008 11:57 AM
I am talking about the attribute value. I tried using the & symbol explicitly, and it wouldn't validate in the editor, and the site went down. (Typical .Net error screen) Should we not use CDATA in the attribute fields? I am concerned about the & character being parsed correctly.

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04/10/2008 12:06 PM
Use the entity in attribute values, it should parse correctly. You can't use the CDATA block in an attribute because a < is illegal as well as &

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