dotnet xml: I have a string containing XML embedded withing another XML document
as an attribute value. This is what the string looks like:
<message>quick brown fox&ltmessage/>

I want to convert this to: <message>quick brown fox</message>

How?
(I don't think XmlConvert handles this.)

regards,
T

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What happens if you do this:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(myWholeDocument);
// Assuming <child attributeWithXML="&lt;message&gt;quick brown
fox&ltmessage/&gt;"/>
string embeddedXml =
doc.DocumentElement["child"].Attributes["attributeWithXML"].Value;
Console.WriteLine(embeddedXml);

What prints out?
--
John Saunders [MVP]

Thanks John,

The following code does indeed print <message>quick brown fox</
message>.
But I know exactly where in the containing XML this string occurs. I
am able to extract this without the expense of parsing. I am looking
for a shortcut to unescape the embedded XML. But thanks the answer is
obvious from here.

[code]
using System;
using System.Xml;

class Starter {
public static void Main(string[] args){
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
string xml = "<d><child attributeWithXML=\"&lt;message&gt;quick
brown fox&lt;/message&gt;\" /></d>";
doc.LoadXml(xml);
string embeddedXml =
doc.DocumentElement["child"].Attributes["attributeWithXML"].Value;
Console.WriteLine(embeddedXml);
}
}
[/code]

On May 24, 4:11 pm, "John Saunders [MVP]" <john.saunders at
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