Retaining Entities on XmlDocument LoadXml

[AJ Brown]

I'm loading an XmlDocument object from a string using LoadXml. The
string is a well-formed XML fragment (see example) and loads fine,
however there are entities (&) within attribute values. The loader
parses the incoming entities and converts them to their character
references automatically. How would I retain the entity?

Example incoming fragment:

<company name="B &amp; B Electric" />

After loading the fragment gets converted to:

<company name="B & B Electric" />

I want to retain the original
Thanks,
-AJ

[Martin Honnen]

AJ Brown wrote:

I'm loading an XmlDocument object from a string using LoadXml. The
string is a well-formed XML fragment (see example) and loads fine,
however there are entities (&amp;) within attribute values. The loader
parses the incoming entities and converts them to their character
references automatically. How would I retain the entity?

Example incoming fragment:

<company name="B &amp; B Electric" />

After loading the fragment gets converted to:

<company name="B & B Electric" />

That would not be well-formed. How do you check the output?

If I do

string xmlSnippet = @"<company name=""B &amp; B Electric"" />";
XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.LoadXml(xmlSnippet);
Console.WriteLine(xmlDocument.OuterXml);

then the output is

<company name="B &amp; B Electric" />

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Martin Honnen
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