AsString(Object) seems to have UTF-8 encoding issue

vvvv beta question
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Hi everyone,

I’m having a problem with the AsString(Object) Node. The & symbol is displayed as &amp ; after conversion, see screenshot below.

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hei vabio,

what you’re seeing is correct behavior. it has nothing to do with utf8 but with the fact that & is an illegal character in xml. therefore it is encoded as & this is not a vvvv-thing but official xml standard. where do you feel this is causing problems for you?

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hej joreg,
all right thanks, that explains a lot. i changed the topic from bug to question.

I’m parsing a XML with XPath and the URLs I’m getting from this XML include &-characters. Since the initial format I’m getting from the API I am using is JSON, the new approach would be to skip the conversion and use JSONPath or this plugin. Will also try if GetElement will do the job.

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hm…still not entirely sure what you’re doing and i have the suspicion that there’d be an easy solution if you showed us exactly what you want to do.

the solution may include Decode (String HTML). check its helppatch!

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Basically I’m converting JSON to XElement to String and I had issues wirth the illegal characters. But Decode (HTML) is doing the job, thanks joreg.

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