Thread: WSI ExtensionData Imported and XmlEncoded - how are you using this?

Hey Guys,

Out of curiosity, I'm wondering how others are working with storing XML in Product.ExtensionData via WSI. When we upload product data via WSI that contains XML in the ExtensionData field, we end up with encoded xml in the database. This is causing some issues on using the ExtensionData xml in our XMlPackages.

Basically, WSI is doing an XmlEncode() on the passed in xml string. We end up with the following in the database:

<Title>Inductive Preaching</Title>

Is there a nice way to work with this now in XMLPackages? Or do you have to re-write the wsi code to not do the XmlEncode()?

It looks like you need to use CDATA so that it's not parsed by the XML parser.

e.g.

Code:

<![CDATA[<Title>Inductive Preaching</Title>]]>

With the example below, everything inside the CDATA section is ignored by the parser.