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Re: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)

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• Subject: Re: InnerXml is like printf (WAS: Underwhelmed)
• From: "Dan Sullivan" <dsullivan@d...>
• Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:45:42 -0400
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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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