[Mono-bugs] [Bug 72739][Nor] Changed - XmlSerializer will serialize invalid XML characters but complain at deserialization.

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Changed by lluis@ximian.com.

http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=72739

--- shadow/72739	2005-02-25 14:37:54.000000000 -0500
+++ shadow/72739.tmp.17274	2005-03-01 15:09:44.000000000 -0500
@@ -41,6 +41,17 @@
 I have no problem with it not deserializing and loading invalid XML
 off the wire, that's fine.  But (without having checked whether MS
 .NET does this) it does seem like a bug that it will serialize and put
 invalid XML on the wire.  XmlSerializer will create an invalid
 document if its input has an invalid character, rather than either
 removing it or throwing an exception.
+
+------- Additional Comments From lluis@ximian.com  2005-03-01 15:09 -------
+I don't think that allowing the serialization of invalid chars is a
+bug. In .NET 2.0 there is a new flag to enable/disable character
+checking, so I guess that there are some scenarios in which
+serialization of non-standard chars is needed. Notice that this is not
+a serialization issue, but a general xml reading/writing issues.
+
+In any case, .NET 1.1 does not check for invalid chars when writing,
+and we need to keep compatible even if we don't like this behavior,
+since existing applications may rely on it.