XMLReader Escape characters automatically converted

Question

I am working on a project that heavily uses XMLReader and loads data from an XML file.

When the data is read and contains and escape character.. e.g "

It automatically gets converted to a quote ".

Is there a way to stop this behavior without having to reprocess the data to put the escape commands back in.. So that the raw string with the original text "

Thanks for any help.

Answer 1

in a word, no.

the xml reader parses the xml string to build the xml node values. the node values do not have any quoting. when the tree is written back to a string (xml writer) required quoting as used as needed.