XML export bug in RadGridView

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  1. Charles Covell
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    Apr 2010

    Posted 09 Feb 2011 Link to this post

    Hi,

    When using the "export to XML" feature of RadGridView, the resulting XML file is not proper XML when the GridView's data contains strings with the "<>" characters with something between them.  This appears to be because XML special characters:
    < > & %
    --are not escaped properly.

    Would it be possible to get a fix/workaround for this?

    Thanks!

    Charley
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  3. Veselin Vasilev
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    Posted 10 Feb 2011 Link to this post

    Hello Charles Covell,

    You can try escaping those characters in the ElementExporting event of RadGridView.

    Kind regards,
    Veselin Vasilev
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  5. Charles Covell
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    Posted 10 Feb 2011 Link to this post

    Thanks for your response.  I was able to solve the issue by using your workaround.

    In case anyone else reads this topic, here is the code for the ElementExporting callback I used:

    private void myRadGridView_ElementExporting(object sender, GridViewElementExportingEventArgs e)
    {
        if (e.Value != null && e.Value.GetType() == typeof(string))
        {
            e.Value = (e.Value as string).Replace("&", "&");
            e.Value = (e.Value as string).Replace("<", "<");
            e.Value = (e.Value as string).Replace(">", ">");
            e.Value = (e.Value as string).Replace("\"", """);
            e.Value = (e.Value as string).Replace("\'", "&apos;");
        }
    }

    Thanks,

    Charley
  7. ErrolM
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    Sep 2009

    Posted 14 Jul 2011 Link to this post

    Good afternoon Veselin,

    Do Telerik have plans to implement this instead of all developers having to do it themselves?
    I notice there is a ShouldEncodeValue field on the args (though I tried that before searching for this post).

    Cheers,
    Errol
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  9. Pavel Pavlov
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    Posted 20 Jul 2011 Link to this post

    Hi Errol Melvin,

    I am shcheduling this for improvement for our next official release.

    Regards,
    Pavel Pavlov
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  11. azbola
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    Jun 2007

    Posted 09 Jan 2012 Link to this post

    Did this ever make it into a release?

    I seem to now see that headers are correctly encoded, but not data cells?

    Thanks.
  13. Pavel Pavlov
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    Posted 12 Jan 2012 Link to this post

    Hello Charles,

    Please try the following :
    public MainPage()
    {
        InitializeComponent();
         
        gridView.Exporting += new EventHandler<GridViewExportEventArgs>(gridView_Exporting);
         
    }
     
    void gridView_Exporting(object sender, GridViewExportEventArgs e)
    {
        e.ShouldEncodeValue = true;
    }


    Kind regards,
    Pavel Pavlov
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  15. Pavel Pavlov
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    Posted 12 Jan 2012 Link to this post

    Hello Charls ,

    A quick update - for the latest versions please use the ElementExporting event instead .

    * The Exporting event was recently  obsoleted.

    Kind regards,
    Pavel Pavlov
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  17. Mohd
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    Aug 2011

    Posted 16 Jan 2012 Link to this post

    I am waiting for a reply from a long time


    http://www.telerik.com/community/forums/silverlight/gridview/radgrid-export-to-excel-unable-to-maintain-decimal-format-for-number-less-than-4-digits.aspx
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