Inserting newlines in metadata text

AxelThomas — Fri, 04 Jan 2019 09:38:04 GMT

I am editing metadata via a VB.NET Addin. Update information comes from ASCII files and I am and looking for a way to insert new lines.

In this simple example the ASCII text provided might look like: "Administrator: Person A"

Using the IXmlPropertySet2 interfacemy code looks something like this:

Dim sName As String = "mdContact/rpPosName"
Dim sValue As Object = "Administrator: \r\n Person A" 'update string with escape sequence added
XmlPropertySet2.SetPropertyX(sName, sValue, esriXmlPropertyType.esriXPTText, esriXmlSetPropertyAction.esriXSPAAddOrReplace, False)

Setting the property type to esriXPTText suggests that the value parameter (sValue in this example) should be a string. However any escape characters inserted in the string are not interpreted correctly and instead are shown as normal text in the metadata viewer. Being at a loss what the correct escape character might be I tried quite a variety: <\r\n> <br>,  
 <br> \r\n

I have seen the somewhat similar thread https://community.esri.com/thread/213315-new-line-in-metadata-summary-description but this does not fit my problem.
Any ideas how to insert new lines?

Re: Inserting newlines in metadata text

DuncanHornby — Fri, 11 Jan 2019 23:43:57 GMT

Just an idea, no idea if it will work, have you tried the vb constant vbNewLine?

Re: Inserting newlines in metadata text

AxelThomas — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 07:16:39 GMT

Duncan,

thanks for the input but vbNewLine (or vbCrLf for that matter) will not work. I alredy thought to use <br> (the interface is called XmlPropertySet after all) but I am not very versed with xml and did not make it work either. Any other ideas?

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