parsing XML with ampersand

Question

I have a string which contains XML, I just want to parse it into Xelement, but it has an ampersand. I still have a problem parseing it with HtmlDecode. Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You should 'encode' rather than decode. But calling HttpUtility.HtmlEncode will not help you as it will encode your '<' and '>' symbols as well and your string will no longer be an XML.

I think that for this case the best solution would be to replace '&' with '& amp;' (with no space)