Escape << in word document

Aspose.Words Product Family
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When << is used inside word templates (linq), we are getting below exception.

java.lang.IllegalStateException: Character ‘<’ is unexpected.
at asposewobfuscated.zzQF.zzZ(Unknown Source)
Message:Character ‘<’ is unexpected.
at asposewobfuscated.zzG5.zzZ(Unknown Source)
at com.aspose.words.ReportingEngine.buildReport(Unknown Source)
Message:Character ‘<’ is unexpected.

Please help us in escaping these special characters.

Thanks,
John
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Hi John,

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3

Please find sample document attached. I tried to use angular braces, it gives me an error.


Our template has some sections, where we print angular brace as text and getting error there.

Please help.

Thanks,
John
4
Hi John,

Thanks for sharing the document. We have tested the scenario and have managed to reproduce the same issue at our side. For the sake of correction, we have logged this problem in our issue tracking system as WORDSNET-14288. You will be notified via this forum thread once this issue is resolved.

We apologize for your inconvenience.

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Hi John,

Thanks for your patience. It is to inform you that WORDSNET-14267 is not a bug. LINQ Reporting Engine throws an exception in the shared case. To avoid the exception, please put angle braces into a string-constant expression like in the following example:

<<["<>"]>>

We have attached the modified document with this post for your kind reference. Please let us know if you have any more queries.