[SOLVED] BeforeDrawRow event markup escape chars

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I found that special characters in XAML have the same codes as in HTML.  For example, < and > are specified by the html codes &lt; and &gt; respectively.

Hey Aaron,

You should escape your plain-text before adding it to markup strings...I posted a function in the Xaml board a while ago that should do the trick:

https://forum.codejock.com/forum_posts.asp?TID=10865

This function is only useful for escaping purely plain text that contains no markup/Xaml of it's own (since it will convert < and > characters to &lt; and &gt;)

Hi Aaron,

Those should be the only common characters that need escaping...what I'm not sure about is:

1) Whitespace/Unprintable characters (tab, CHR$(0) through CHR$(31), CHR$(127))
2) Extended ASCII characters (CHR$(128) through CHR$(255))
3) Unicode characters

Perhaps I'll run some tests...You mention that only the & character was breaking the XAML validation..what happens if you add markup to your column next (e.g. Nood <Bold>Alarm</Bold>)...does the group row text interpret the XAML as XAML tags, or does it show the tag string as text?