Remove html special Char from displayed text

Question

I have Xml witch a convert to plain text and then display with html formatting in a web browser.

At the end of each line the symbol ¶ appears i would like to remove the symbol or replace it with a .

Does anyone know how i could do this?

This is how i convert XML to plain text:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
                        doc.LoadXml(this.dataGridViewResult.SelectedRows[0].Cells["XMLEvent"].Value.ToString());

StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (XmlNode node in doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes)
{
  sb.Append(char.ToUpper(node.Name[0]));
  sb.Append(node.Name.Substring(1));
  sb.Append(' ');
  sb.AppendLine(node.InnerText);
}

@Damith Like that it does not remove the chars must i put something in the breakets ?? — Pomster
– Pomster, Commented Jun 22, 2012 at 6:01
you have several Appends, not sure where this special character adding, but you can finally remove it from the sb like above — Damith
– Damith, Commented Jun 22, 2012 at 6:08

Simon Ejsing · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-22 06:19:24Z

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Where does the '¶' appear? Is it when you open the converted text file in an editor?

Normally that sign is used to visualize the end of line in a text editor, and it's not really part of you text. In many cases you have an option in the text editor to show/hide line ending markers.

However, if the output you are interested in is HTML, the character should not appear here.

answered Jun 22, 2012 at 6:19

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Pomster Over a year ago

It does not appear before i convert from XML to text so it appears somewhere in the conversion i have posed in my question.

Pomster Over a year ago

it does not appear when i show result in a rich textbox but then my html formatting is not shown.

Ivo · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-22 05:51:25Z

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Try this:

sb.AppendLine(node.InnerText.TrimEnd('¶'));

or

sb.AppendLine(node.InnerText.Replace("¶","."));

answered Jun 22, 2012 at 5:51

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Pomster Over a year ago

@ivowiblo No sorry they did not work, the did cause some changes to my display so i don't think your far off.

Pomster Over a year ago

Is there no way to delete it from my string.

Ivo Over a year ago

Which is the encoding of the text in the xml and the encoding of your page?

astro boy · Accepted Answer · 2012-06-22 06:09:05Z

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After the foreach loop, Try:

sb.Replace("¶", ".");

answered Jun 22, 2012 at 6:09

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Shimmy Weitzhandler · Accepted Answer · 2012-12-17 15:52:38Z

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Specifically in your case (assuming it's always at the end of the line), I'd use:

sb.AppendLine(node.InnerText.Replace('\u00b6', '.'));

If you want to keep your code unicode free.

answered Dec 17, 2012 at 15:52

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