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How do I stop XElement.Save from escaping characters?

I'm populating an XElement with information and writing it to an xml file using the XElement.Save(path) method. At some point, certain characters in the resulting file are being escaped - for example, > becomes >.

This behaviour is unacceptable, since I need to store information in the XML that includes the > character as part of a password. How can I write the 'raw' content of my XElement object to XML without having these escaped?

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Lack of this behavior is unacceptable.

A standalone unescaped > is invalid XML.
XElement is designed to produce valid XML.

If you want to get the unescaped content of the element, use the Value property.

SLaks  2010-04-02 00:10:50
Actually `>` is usually not required to be escaped. See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#syntax for the precise requirement. Nonetheless, I agree with being safe and escaping the `>` all the time. Any parser that conforms to the XML specification is required to understand `>`.
binarycoder  2010-04-02 00:16:21
Is there any case in which the XElement could be induced to provide the raw string (including escaping, as in the file) rather than the unescaped `Value` content? Judging by what you are saying, it sounds like that it is the receiving code that has the problem.
Daniel I-S  2010-04-02 00:23:43
Yes; `element.ToString()`.
SLaks  2010-04-02 00:25:43
I'll check the existing code for this. Thanks.
Daniel I-S  2010-04-02 00:28:19
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binarycoder  2010-04-02 00:32:24
I didn't use this, since you're right about the processing code being at fault - but this is the reply that most closely answers the question.
Daniel I-S  2010-04-02 17:49:11

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