Prevent Character Escape When Calling XmlWriter.WriteElementString

Question

I have a string

<entry key="Provider">Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.</entry>
<entry key="Challenged">No</entry>

I need to call the

using xmlwriter.WriteElementString I need to what the string mentioned earlier. Problem here is the xwriter.WriteElementString will escape all "<" and ">" symbols with &lt and &gt. I have checked MSDN to see if there is a way to disable it, but have not found an answer. Is there a way to disable the auto-escape features?

Answer 1

Can you show the XML you'd like to have? Are you trying to write XML inside of XML? Something like this:

<outer>
    <entry key="Provider">Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.</entry>
    <entry key="Challenged">No</entry>
</outer>

In that case, you don't want to use WriteElementString. Use one of the overloads of XmlWriter.WriteNode.

Answer 2

calling xmlwriter.writeraw fixed the problem.

Answer 3

Is that the actual XML you are trying to write? (not a literal inside of XML)?

Try this:

xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("entry");
xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("key", "Provider");
xmlWriter.WriteValue("Comcast Cable Communications, Inc.")
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement()