Encodes and decodes XML names and provides methods for converting between common language infrastructure (CLI) types and XML Schema Definition language (XSD) types. When converting data types, the values returned are locale independent. [Edit]

See Also: XmlConvert Members

public class XmlConvert

Thread Safety

All public static members of this type are safe for multithreaded operations. No instance members are guaranteed to be thread safe.

Remarks

Element and attribute names or ID values are limited to a range of XML characters according to the Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0 (Second Edition) recommendation, located at www.w3.org/TR/2000/REC-xml-20001006.html. When names contain invalid characters, they need to be translated into valid XML names.

Many languages and applications allow Unicode characters in their names, which are not valid in XML names. For example, if 'Order Detail' were a column heading in a database, the database allows the space between the words Order and Detail. However, in XML, the space between Order and Detail is considered an invalid XML character. Thus, the space, the invalid character, needs to be converted into an escaped hexadecimal encoding and can be decoded later.

The XmlConvert.EncodeName(string) and XmlConvert.DecodeName(string) methods are used to translate invalid XML names into valid XML names and vice versa.

System.Xml.XmlConvert provides methods that enable the conversion of a string to a CLI data type and vice-versa. Locale settings are not taken into account during data conversion.

System.Xml.XmlConvert also provides methods that convert between XML Schema Definition (XSD) data types (see http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlschema-2/#built-in-datatypes) and their corresponding common language infrastructure (CLI) data types. The following table shows the XSD data types and their corresponding CLI data types.

XSD data type	CLI data type
hexBinary	A byte array
base64Binary	A byte array
Boolean	bool
Byte	sbyte
normalizedString	string
Date	DateTime
duration	TimeSpan
dateTime	DateTime
decimal	decimal
Double	double
ENTITIES	A string array
ENTITY	string
Float	float
gMonthDay	DateTime
gDay	DateTime
gYear	DateTime
gYearMonth	DateTime
ID	string
IDREF	string
IDREFS	A string array
int	int
integer	decimal
language	string
long	long
month	DateTime
Name	string
NCName	string
negativeInteger	decimal
NMTOKEN	string
NMTOKENS	A string array
nonNegativeInteger	decimal
nonPositiveInteger	decimal
NOTATION	string
positiveInteger	decimal
short	short
string	string
time	DateTime
timePeriod	DateTime
token	string
unsignedByte	byte
unsignedInt	uint
unsignedLong	ulong
unsignedShort	ushort
anyURI	Uri

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Requirements

Namespace: System.Xml
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
Assembly Versions: 1.0.5000.0, 2.0.0.0