Uses for the '"' entity in HTML

Question

I am revising some XHTML files authored by another party. As part of this effort, I am doing some bulk editing via Linq to XML.

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Answer 1

It is likely because they used a single function for escaping attributes and text nodes. & doesn't do any harm so why complicate your code and make it more error-prone by having two escaping functions and having to pick between them?