SecurityElement.AddAttribute(String, String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Security

Assembly:

System.Runtime.dll

Source:

SecurityElement.cs

Adds a name/value attribute to an XML element.

public:
 void AddAttribute(System::String ^ name, System::String ^ value);

public void AddAttribute (string name, string value);

member this.AddAttribute : string * string -> unit

Public Sub AddAttribute (name As String, value As String)

Parameters

name

String

The name of the attribute.

value

String

The value of the attribute.

Exceptions

ArgumentNullException

The name parameter or value parameter is null.

ArgumentException

The name parameter or value parameter is invalid in XML.

-or-

An attribute with the name specified by the name parameter already exists.

Examples

The following code shows the use of the AddAttribute method to add a name/value attribute to an XML element. This code example is part of a larger example provided for the SecurityElement class.

windowsRoleElement->AddAttribute( L"version", L"1.00" );

windowsRoleElement.AddAttribute("version","1.00");

windowsRoleElement.AddAttribute("version", "1.00")

Remarks

Names and values in attributes should only contain valid XML attribute characters. XML attribute names must be unique. Use Escape to remove invalid characters from the string.

There is no support for quoted strings, so strings for name/value pairs should not contain quotes or other characters requiring quoting.