Can I change an XText object into a string with character references and entities resolved?

Question

Given this XML:

<element>Circles &amp; boxes</element>

What I would like to do is store the string value of the element as a string, with all of the character references and entities resolved to their equivalent unicode characters. So, for this element, I would want "Circles & Boxes."

When I do this (text is an XText object representing the text node):

string textvalue = text.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);

I get "Circles & Boxes," which is not what I want.

Is this possible?

Answer 1

How about using:

string textvalue = text.Value;