Bypass double quotes inside XML value - sql-server

Question

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I have this piece of XML from which I need to extract the values and ids using SQL Server:
<root>
<field id="1" value="gfjsdgfdjy duahsd "absdjsd"" />
<field id="37" value="ysgfdyua" />
<field id="13" value="asdas" />
<field id="73" value="fgdgfd" />
<field id="adsf" value="fdsa" />
</root>
This is what I use to extract the values and ids from that XML, which is stored into variable #test, and insert them into a temp table:
insert into #tmp (field, val)
select field.value('#id', 'nvarchar(100)') as fieldID,
field.value('#value', 'nvarchar(200)') as val
from #test.nodes('root/field') A(field)
That query works fine until there's a value that has double quotes like in the example above, which throws the followig error: XML parsing: line 1, character 108, whitespace expected
Any way of working around that?
I have to mention that I do not create these XMLs by hand, but get them from a DB, so any mistakes in their creation is not my fault.

Answer 1

Conformant XML parsers are required to report all well-formedness errors, so any conformant XML parser will reject this ill-formed XML.
You can sometimes get around this by using parsers (which are not conformant XML parsers) that attempt to repair errors. However, I don't know if any of them are capable of handling this particular problem, Note that in the general case it can't be detected, consider
<root>
<field id="1" value="some " inner " 3" />
<field id="2" value="some " inner= " 3" />
</root>
The second field is well-formed XML.
Whenever a supplier provides you with ill-formed XML, you need to complain, as you would with any other product defect. Usually I have found suppliers very responsive to such error reports. It's surprising how often the XML export capability was entrusted to some junior programmer with no XML knowledge or experience, even if the company concerned is a very professional outfit.