RE: LINQ to XML to Find Escaped Ampersand Problems?

Hi SnapDive,

Welcome to Microsoft MSDN newsgroup. My name is Lingzhi Sun [MSFT]. It is
my pleasure to work with you on this LINQ to XML question.

In LINQ to XML, the CDATA is represented by XCData
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.linq.xcdata.aspx) and
the XML element?s inner text is expressed by XText
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.linq.xtext.aspx). We
can use the XElement.DescendantNodesAndSelf
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.linq.xelement.descendant
nodesandself.aspx) method to get all the XML nodes in an XML document.
Here are some code examples for your references:

Check the CDATA and Replace the value if necessary
======================================================================
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("MyXml.xml");

var query = from element in doc.Root.DescendantNodesAndSelf()
            where element.NodeType == System.Xml.XmlNodeType.CDATA
            let CDataElement = element as XCData
            where CDataElement.Value.Contains("&")
            select CDataElement;

foreach (var element in query)
{
    element.Value = element.Value.Replace("&", "&");
}

doc.Save("MyXml.xml");

======================================================================

Check the Inner Text and Replace the value if necessary
======================================================================
XDocument doc = XDocument.Load("MyXml.xml");

var query = from element in doc.Root.DescendantNodesAndSelf()
            where element.NodeType == System.Xml.XmlNodeType.Text
            let TextElement = element as XText
            where TextElement.Value.Contains("&&")
            select TextElement;

foreach (var element in query)
{
    element.Value = element.Value.Replace("&&", "&");
}

doc.Save("MyXml.xml");
======================================================================

If you can use VB.NET on this LINQ to XML case, you can also consider using
the new VB.NET feature, XML literals to query the XML document. For
detail, please see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb384460.aspx &
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb687701.aspx.

Please note: if there is a namespace in your XML document, please refer to
Working with XML Namespace
(http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb387093.aspx). You may need to
do some modification on my code snippets to query the XML elements with
namespaces.

If you have any questions regarding this case, please feel free to let me
know.

Regards,
Lingzhi Sun
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