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Reading XML with an “&” into C# XMLDocument Object

September 1, 2022 by Magenaut

I have inherited a poorly written web application that seems to have errors when it tries to read in an xml document stored in the database that has an “&” in it. For example there will be a tag with the contents: “Prepaid & Charge”. Is there some secret simple thing to do to have it not get an error parsing that character, or am I missing something obvious?

Get a specific number of results from an XmlDocument XPath query

August 25, 2022 by Magenaut

I’m querying a Twitter RSS feed and supplying the results into a Repeater for display. I’d like to only get the first 5 results of the XPath query. Is there a way to do that in the XPath syntax or do I have to loop over the resulting XmlNodeList to pull out the first 5?