invalidxmlcharacters-element-assl.md

title	InvalidXmlCharacters Element (ASSL) | Microsoft Docs
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InvalidXmlCharacters Element (ASSL)

Specifies the handling method for XML characters in the source data that are not valid.

Syntax

  
<DataItem>  
   ...  
   <InvalidXmlCharacters>...</InvalidXmlCharacters>  
   ...  
</DataItem  

Element Characteristics

Characteristic	Description
Data type and length	String (enumeration)
Default value	Preserve
Cardinality	0-1: Optional element that can occur once and only once.

Element Relationships

Relationship	Element
Parent element	DataItem
Child elements	None

Remarks

The value of this element is limited to one of the strings in the following table.

Value	Description
Preserve	Invalid XML characters are preserved.
Remove	Invalid XML characters are removed.
Replace	Invalid XML characters are replaced with question mark (?) characters.

The enumeration that corresponds to the allowed values for InvalidXmlCharacters in the Analysis Management Objects (AMO) object model is xref:Microsoft.AnalysisServices.InvalidXmlCharacters.

See Also

Properties (ASSL)