Use Node.InnerXml, not Node.InnerText. Node.InnerText is automatically replacing special values. Note that if you specify with CDATA in InnerXml, then Node.InnerText is text in CDATA. Example:
public class Test
{
public static int Main(string[] args)
{
const string xmlTxt = @"
";
TextReader treader = new StringReader(xmlTxt);
XmlReader xreader = XmlReader.Create(treader);
XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
xdoc.Load(xreader);
XmlNode xnode = xdoc.SelectSingleNode("entry/entry_status");
//xnode.InnerText = "";
xnode.InnerXml = "";
Console.WriteLine("inner text is: " + xnode.InnerText);
xdoc.Save(Console.Out); Console.WriteLine();
return 0;
}
}
Program's output:
inner text is: something