How to avoid System.Xml.Linq.XElement escaping HTML content?

Question

I\'m using the XElement object to build some HTML in the code-behind on an ASP.NET page.

I may or may not add some XAttributes to this XElement as I go along, in the

Answer 1

Why wouldn't you use HtmlTextWriter?

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();

HtmlTextWriter htmlWriter = new HtmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
htmlWriter.RenderBeginTag(HtmlTextWriterTag.Span);
htmlWriter.AddAttribute(HtmlTextWriterAttribute.Id, "content");
htmlWriter.Write("hello world");
htmlWriter.RenderEndTag();

htmlWriter.Flush();

stringWriter.ToString(); //hello world