XmlReaderSettings.CheckCharacters Property
Gets or sets a value indicating whether to do character checking.
Namespace: System.Xml
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Booleantrue to do character checking; otherwise false. The default is true.
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If the XmlReader is processing text data, it always checks that the XML names and text content are valid, regardless of the property setting. Setting CheckCharacters to false turns off character checking for character entity references. |
Instructs the reader to check characters and throw an exception if any characters are outside the range of legal XML characters. Character checking includes checking for illegal characters in the document, as well as checking the validity of XML names (for example, an XML name may not start with a numeral).
For more information, see sections 2.2 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#charsets) and 2.3 (http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-Name) of the W3C XML 1.0 recommendation.
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
