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    <p>I'm parsing a string of XML into an XDocument that looks like this (using XDocument.Parse)</p> <pre><code>&lt;Root&gt; &lt;Item&gt;Here is &amp;quot;Some text&amp;quot;&lt;/Item&gt; &lt;/Root&gt; </code></pre> <p>Then I manipulate the XML a bit, and I want to send it back out as a string, just like it came in</p> <pre><code>&lt;Root&gt; &lt;Item&gt;Here is &amp;quot;Some text&amp;quot;&lt;/Item&gt; &lt;NewItem&gt;Another item&lt;/NewItem&gt; &lt;/Root&gt; </code></pre> <p>However, what I am getting is</p> <pre><code>&lt;Root&gt; &lt;Item&gt;Here is \"Some text\"&lt;/Item&gt; &lt;NewItem&gt;Another item&lt;/NewItem&gt; &lt;/Root&gt; </code></pre> <p>Notice how the double quotes are now escaped instead of encoded?</p> <p>This happens whether I use </p> <pre><code>ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting); </code></pre> <p>or</p> <pre><code>var stringWriter = new System.IO.StringWriter(); xDoc.Save(stringWriter, SaveOptions.DisableFormatting); var newXml = stringWriter.GetStringBuilder().ToString(); </code></pre> <p>How can I have the double quotes come out as <code>&amp;quot;</code> and not <code>\"</code>?</p> <p><strong>UPDATE</strong>: Maybe this can explain it better:</p> <pre><code>var origXml = "&lt;Root&gt;&lt;Item&gt;Here is \"Some text&amp;quot;&lt;/Item&gt;&lt;/Root&gt;"; Console.WriteLine(origXml); var xmlDoc = System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Parse(origXml); var modifiedXml = xmlDoc.ToString(System.Xml.Linq.SaveOptions.DisableFormatting); Console.WriteLine(modifiedXml); </code></pre> <p>the output I get from this is:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Root&gt;&lt;Item&gt;Here is "Some text&amp;quot;&lt;/Item&gt;&lt;/Root&gt; &lt;Root&gt;&lt;Item&gt;Here is "Some text"&lt;/Item&gt;&lt;/Root&gt; </code></pre> <p>I want the output to be:</p> <pre><code>&lt;Root&gt;&lt;Item&gt;Here is "Some text&amp;quot;&lt;/Item&gt;&lt;/Root&gt; &lt;Root&gt;&lt;Item&gt;Here is "Some text&amp;quot;&lt;/Item&gt;&lt;/Root&gt; </code></pre>
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    1. COI don't particularly understand the need for either, actually. `&quot;` is only needed in attribute values, anyway.
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    2. COWell, you are probably right. The third party tool I'm using to read in my XML string was giving an error. The only thing I could see that was different was the way the double quotes looked in the XML string. I was hoping that changing them from \" to &quot; would work - but it doesn't seem to be working.
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    3. COI've tested in VB.NET based on the above (read in string XML from XDocument.Parse, add a new XElement, write back to a string, save the string) and it's working just fine, just the double quotes and no escapement. Is there something you're doing beyond the above that could help troubleshoot the issue?
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