disableOutputEscaping Property

MSXML 5.0 SDK

Microsoft XML Core Services (MSXML) 5.0 for Microsoft Office - SAX2 Reference

disableOutputEscaping Property

Turns disableOutputEscaping on or off. When disableOutputEscaping is set to True, special symbols such as "&" are passed through literally. When disableOutputEscaping is set to False, special symbols (also known as built-in entities) such as & are escaped to &.

[Visual Basic]

Usage Syntax

oMXXMLWriter.disableOutputEscaping = boolValue
boolValue = oMXXMLWriter.disableOutputEscaping

Remarks

Read/write. The default value is False. When you try to output a special character such as "<" or "&", the special character will be escaped in the output file using the standard XML escaping mechanism. For example, by default, the MXXMLWriter writes the "&" symbol as "&amp;" unless disableOutputEscaping is set to True. If disableOutputEscaping is set to True, MXXMLWriter does not escape the special symbol and writes the "&" symbol as the literal "&".

[C/C++]

Syntax

[propput]
HRESULT disableOutputEscaping (
   [in] VARIANT_BOOL fValue);
[propget]
HRESULT disableOutputEscaping (
   [out, retval] VARIANT_BOOL * fValue);

Parameters

fValue
A Boolean expression (True/False) specifying whether the feature is on or off.

Return Values

S_OK
The value returned if no errors are reported.

Remarks

If this property is set to True, the XML output may not be well-formed or valid.

Value Description
True MXXMLWriter does not escape special symbols (passing them through as literals) when writing output.
False (default) MXXMLWriter escapes special symbols when writing output.

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See Also

Applies to: MXXMLWriter CoClass