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Quick Way to Escape Special Characters in an XML Document

Quick Way to Escape Special Characters in an XML Document

We can use the SecurityElement’s Escape method of the System.Security namespace to escape all the special characters in an XML file. Code snippet below:

string escapedstring = System.Security.SecurityElement.Escape(inputXMLString); 

…inputXMLString ?contains the XML with special characters.

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