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

Filip's answer is on the right track, but you can hijack the System.Xml.XmlDocument class to do this for you without an entire new utility function.

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
string xmlEscapedString = (doc.CreateTextNode("Unescaped '&' containing string that would have broken your xml")).OuterXml;