why does xmltextreader convert html encoded utf8 characters to utf8 string automatically?

Question

I receive an XML file with encoding \"ISO-8859-1\" (Latin-1)

Within the file (among other tags) I have Example "content" And &am

Answer 1

I do not believe this is a problem with the encoding. What you're seeing is the XML string being un-escaped.

The problem is " is a XML escape character, so XMLTextReader will un-escape this for you.

If you change this:

<OtherText>Example &quot;content&quot; And &#9472;</OtherText>

To this:

<OtherText>Example &amp;quot;content&amp;quot; And &amp;#9472;</OtherText>

Then

   XmlReader.Value = ""content" And ─";

You'll need to wrap your value in CDATA so it is ignored by the parser.

Another option is to re-escape the string:

    using System.Security;
....
....
    string val = SecurityElement.Escape(xmlReader.Value);