Why Do XML Entities Keep Literal Value in C# String?

Question

I have an XML element with carriage return entities:

<expectedValue>Success:&#13;&#10;Your Payment information has been updated!</expectedValue>

I was expecting that when deserialized into an object with string property they would show as the C# escape characters such as:

Success:\\r\\nYour Payment information has been updated!

However the string still comes through with the literal entity values:

Success:
Your Payment information has been updated!

Is there a way to have it deserialized as what I was expecting?

Answer 1

take a look at SecurityElement.Escape there you see all letters that get encoded/decoded. if you further non xml encoded the data in the xml you have to decode it accordingly.