XDoc encoding problem

[frederic]

Hello,

I am currently programming an DreamService and my methods returns a XDoc.
The problem is that i read a file that contain special caractors and when i render it all into a Xdoc, it will not consider the special caracters.

So how can i force encoding Xdoc into UTF8 or somthing else? I didnt find anything on the XDoc Class documentation.

Thank you for your help!

[SteveB]

XDoc does all encoding automatically. Can you share a code snippet? Maybe you're running into a different issue than you think.

[frederic]

This is the header of the CS file:

    [DreamService("Livelink Connector", "Frédéric Hanna 2011.",
                  SID = new string[] { "http://gps.ireq.ca/wiki/LivelinkConnector" }
    )]
    [DreamServiceBlueprint("deki/service-type", "extension")]
    [DekiExtLibrary(Namespace = "livelinkconnector",
        Label = "Livelink documents fetcher",
        Description = "This extension allow you to retreive some documents from Open Text Livelink.")]
    class LivelinkUtils : DekiExtService
    {

        /// <summary>
        /// Retreive document informations from an Livelink server and return result as XML.
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="userAccount">User ID, ie: AA1234</param>
        /// <param name="attributes">Attributes to load (default: {givenname, sn} )</param>
        /// <returns>XML Representation of specified attributes values</returns>
        [DekiExtFunction(Description = "Displays all the publications of a user based on his id and formatted with the APA standards.")]
        public XDoc getUserPublications(
            [DekiExtParam("User ID, ie: AA1234")] string CIP
        )

Here i read a file rendered in charset=iso-8859-1

readFile = new StreamReader(absolutePublicationsDirectory + CIP + EXTENSION_FICHIER, System.Text.Encoding.Default);


while ((line = readFile.ReadLine()) != null)
 {
//here i read each line and add it to a String Array 
}

Then i prepare the Xdoc

                for (int i = 0; i < nbDocuments; i++)
                {
                    HTMLResult.Start("li").Start("a").Attr("href", publications[i, 1]).Value(publications[i, 0]).End().End();
                }

// here i return the Xdoc
                HTMLResult.End();

                return HTMLResult;

[SteveB]

I think your problem is with System.Text.Encoding.Default. Make sure you use an encoding that can read your source file without losing characters (e.g. UTF8).