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Preventing SlowCheetah from encoding "<", ">" and adding &#xD;&#xA; for carriage returns

I am using SlowCheetah for transforming my application config file. My problem is that some of the values that it replaces are SQL statements that have conditions like ... where x > 1 and the > ends up being encoded as &gt;, \r\n ends up as &#xD;&#xA; and so forth. If I send this sort of statement to the database will throw an error.

How do I prevent this? I googled already with no luck.

Solution

  • To "fix" this issue - if you can call it that - I ended up moving the section that contained the special characters that were being encoded by SlowCheetah to a different file, and set the configSource attribute in the section to point to the new file. Basically, I did this:

    <pluginsSection configSource="Configs\pluginsConfig.xml"> 
</pluginSection>

    Now SlowCheetah transforms the App.config file and the contents of pluginsConfig.xml are not affected.