innerText in an XML file

[mickey]

hello, with C# xml library I'm reading a xml file that contains this:
"http://www.ggggg/fff&hello";

While (xmlReader) {
     if (link) 
            string link = reader.Value; //link now hasn't "amp;"
}
XMLWriter my_xml_writer;
myTag.InnerText = link; //here problem
write_to_file_as_xml

While (xmlReader) {
     if (link) 
            string link = reader.Value; //link now hasn't "amp;"
}
XMLWriter my_xml_writer;
myTag.InnerText = link; //here problem
write_to_file_as_xml

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Above, innerText take the right thing(without "amp;") but the output file has "&". I note (debugging) that myTag has also one other property: innerXML that it contains the "&".
I guess, xml library, seeing a '&' add automatically a 'amp;' after &;
I need to read from a file that has "&" and write to output file as "&" only. Is there a solution, please?

thanks.

[jacek]

First I would check if you can disable automatic entity encoding in XMLWriter.

[mickey]

First I would check if you can disable automatic entity encoding in XMLWriter.

I don't find any thing like that. There are several properties. I see that I can change encoding as:UTF, ASCII....but to be sincer, I don't know what look......However I have the same problem (I guess) when I have "myTag.innerText = "<div> </div>" and when I write it on the output file, I see &lt;div&gt;......Any other suggest? thanks.

[jacek]

However I have the same problem (I guess) when I have "myTag.innerText = "<div> </div>" and when I write it on the output file, I see &lt;div&gt;

That's how it should behave. You are adding text, not XML snippet --- try innerXml.

As for the entity references, you could try to reimplement one of the WriteXxx methods of the XmlWriter (I hope you realize that & isn't allowed in XML).

[mickey]

I can't understand why does the parser change it, if I'd like insert into a node as text the char '<' ?

[jacek]

if I'd like insert into a node as text the char '<' ?

You can't insert '<' into an XML document just like that, because it has special meaning --- it's a sign for a parser that a tag starts. That's why there are character entities in XML. For a parser &lt; is exactly the same thing as character < (of course this means that you can't use & in XML documents and you have to use &amp; instead).