WPF Richtextbox XamlWriter behaviour

Answer 1

I have resigned to a tardy solution for now, but if any of you finds a clean one, please post it.

I have used a Replace call of Stringbuilder to remove the undesired characters.

    private string GetXaml(FlowDocument document)
    {
        if (document == null) return String.Empty;
        else
        {

            StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
            using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(sb))
            {
                XamlDesignerSerializationManager sm = new XamlDesignerSerializationManager(xw);
                sm.XamlWriterMode = XamlWriterMode.Expression;

                XamlWriter.Save(document, sm);
            }
            sb.Replace("{}", "");
            return sb.ToString();
        }

    }

I have a feeling that when the xamlwriter encounters "{" character - it intreprets that as a binding expression. I wonder what the escape sequence is for this character.

Note - I tried changing the

XamlWriterMode from XamlWriterMode.Expression to XamlWriterMode.Value

with no joy.