Built in .NET function for unescaping characters in XML stream?

Question

So, I have some data in the form of:

<foo><bar>test</bar></foo>

What .NET classes/f

Answer 1

Using the System.Xml.XmlDocument class...

Dim Val As String = "<foo><bar>test</bar></foo>"
Dim Xml As String = HttpUtility.HtmlDecode(Val)

Dim Doc As New XmlDocument()
Doc.LoadXml(Xml)

Dim Writer As New StringWriter()
Doc.Save(Writer)

Console.Write(Writer.ToString())