An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line1, position 844

Question

I have got the following exception from the below code block.

An error occurred while parsing EntityName. Line1, position 844.

I was trying

Answer 1

This has already been answered, but found a nicer way of achieving the same outcome by doing this in .NET 4.5 by using the Escape method as below:

var xmlWithEscapedCharacters = SecurityElement.Escape(xmlWithoutEscapedCharacters);

and then just plug that string into the XML that is being generated.

Link: MSDN - SecurityElement.Escape Method