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  SubhakarYarl...

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  How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 07, 2012 09:28 AM|LINK

  I am trying to do breadcrumb to my site.  I took sitemap and trying to give URL to the sitemapnode and it looks like

  <siteMapNode url="index.aspx?cat=Customs&subcat=Acts" title="Index"  description="Central Excise">

  From above URL '&' is not taking and it shows error.How can we give '&' to the URL?

  Please help to get out of this!!

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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 07, 2012 12:23 PM|LINK

  Try to either use a variable or & to get it to work. You may also need to escape it like \&.
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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 08, 2012 03:49 PM|LINK

  I alredy used & Error doesn't shows but by giving this & the URL in the sitemapnode doesn't find and can't display the title of the sitemapnode.

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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 08, 2012 04:11 PM|LINK

  special characters in the url need to be urlencoded - which is different from htmlencoding

  when urlencoded the & becomes %26

  <siteMapNode url="index.aspx?cat=Customs%26subcat=Acts" title="Index"  description="Central Excise">

  
  
  

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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 08, 2012 07:14 PM|LINK

  Could you use string = UrlEncode("String"); to do this as well?
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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 08, 2012 09:22 PM|LINK

  countycowpoke

  Could you use string = UrlEncode("String"); to do this as well?

  Sure:

  string someString = "foo&foo";
  someString = HttpServerUtility.UrlEncode(someString);

  http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/zttxte6w.aspx
  
  

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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 10, 2012 06:59 AM|LINK

  But the URL encode is not useful as I am giving URL at HTML. Please find the code below

  <ul>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Acts">Acts</a></li>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Rules">Rules</a></li>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Tariff 2012-13">Tariff 2012-13</a></li>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=CBEC Manual">CBEC Manual</a></li>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Forms">Forms</a></li>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Notifications">Notifications</a></li>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Circulars/Instructions">Circulars/Instructions</a></li>
  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Section 37B Order">Section 37B Order</a></li>
   </ul>

  I am sending values from the URL through query string to index.aspx page and I tried using %26 as mentiond above but that is not working as getting problem to retrive the query string values.

  Example with %26 instead of &

  <li><a href="/index.aspx?cat=Central Excise%26subcat=Acts">Acts</a></li>

  while retriving the values to the index page

  category = Request.QueryString["cat"]; 
  subcategory = Request.QueryString["subcat"];

  and the output is 

  category = "Central Excise&subcat=Acts"

  subcategory = null

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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 10, 2012 07:11 AM|LINK

  When I was trying with %26 to the <sitemapnode> it prompts me an error

  The 'url' property had a malformed URL: /index.aspx?cat=Customs%26subcat=Acts.

  Description: An unhandled exception occurred during the execution of the current web request. Please review the stack trace for more information about the error and where it originated in the code.
  
  Exception Details: System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: The 'url' property had a malformed URL: /index.aspx?cat=Customs%26subcat=Acts.

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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 10, 2012 07:52 AM|LINK

  This works perfectly for me (vs2008) with &amp;. My sitemap is:

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
  <siteMap xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/AspNet/SiteMap-File-1.0" >
      <siteMapNode url="default.aspx" title="Home">
          <siteMapNode url="default.aspx?cat=Central Excise&amp;subcat=Acts" title="Acts" />
          <siteMapNode url="default.aspx?cat=Central Excise&amp;subcat=Rules" title="Rules" />
          <siteMapNode url="default.aspx?cat=Central Excise&amp;subcat=Forms" title="Forms" />
          <siteMapNode url="default.aspx?cat=Central Excise&amp;subcat=Circulars" title="Circulars" />
      </siteMapNode>
  </siteMap>
  
  

  On the page I have:

          <div>
              <asp:SiteMapDataSource ID="menuData" runat="server" />
              <asp:Menu runat="server" DataSourceID="menuData" Orientation="Vertical" StaticDisplayLevels="2" />
          </div>
          <br />
          Cat: <asp:Label ID="cat" runat="server" />
          <br />
          Sub: <asp:Label ID="sub" runat="server" />

  And in code I have:

          protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
          {
              string category = Request.QueryString["cat"];
              string subcategory = Request.QueryString["subcat"];
  
              cat.Text = category;
              sub.Text = subcategory;
          }

  In every case the category and subcategory are passed through and extracted from the querystring correctly.

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  Re: How to include '&' to sitemapnode URL?

  Jul 10, 2012 08:04 AM|LINK

  Hi,

  Working with &amp; but URL is not finding if there is a space  in the string

  URl = index.aspx?cat=Central Excise&subcat=Acts

  Thanks.