How to remove "special characters" from XML?

Question

Is there a .NET (2.0) framework method to remove the XML special characters?

Like " & etc.

It's easy enough to write one, but I'd rather use the framework's if one is available.

Answer 1

Assuming you mean you want to escape the characters, i.e. & becomes & then I don't think there is a framework method for that, closest is probably the HTMLEncode and HTMLDecode on the HTTPServerUtility class. Could always wrap your data in CDATA tags to avoid parsing of those characters.