Hi Byron,

Yes, it's now possible to store XML with the UserControlWrapper in 4.6.  According to Tim's comments on this thread you just save the XML as a string or an XmlDocument and the wrapper will detect this and save as XML.  I've already tested by returning a string and it works great!

-Tom

Hi Tom, thanks for this. Are you using XDocument .Net class for this? Do you have some code as example please. I appreciate the help.

Byron

Hi Byron,

No, I'm just saving a string formatted as XML and Umbraco handles the rest.

        public string _umbracoValue;
        public object value
        {
            get
            {
                return txtXml.Text;
            }
            set
            {
                _umbracoValue = value.ToString();
            }
        }

txtXml just has a regular XML string, such as:

<items>
 <item>
  <field1>Value1</field1>
  <field2>Value2</field2>
 </item>
 <item>
  <field1>Value1</field1>
  <field2>Value2</field2>
 </item>
</items>

...and it just works!  Let me know if you can't get it going...

-Tom

I was just about to post what I did, when I saw your response, This is what I did and yes it does work!

        private string _umbval;
        public object value
        {
            get { return GetXML(); }
            set { _umbval = value.ToString(); }
        }
 
        public static string GetXML()
        {
            XDocument xDoc = new XDocument(
                new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"),
                new XElement("NewsItem",
                             new XElement("Title", new XAttribute("html","http://www.Downloads/?=2&=2"),"Some title"),
                             new XElement("Path", "<![CDATA[<p>paragraph</p>]]")
                    )
                );
 
            return xDoc.ToString();
        }

    return xDoc.ToString();
}

 But I can get it to save CDATA content. This is what it produces

         <NewsItem>
            <Title html="http://www.Downloads/?=2&amp;=2">Some title</Title>
            <Path>&lt;![CDATA[&lt;p&gt;paragraph&lt;/p&gt;]]</Path>
          </NewsItem> 

Any ideas?

Thanks

Byron

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