Just found this
_Writer.QuoteChar = '\'';

Used to control which character to use to quote attribute values.

Apologies for not picking this up.
Pat

   
    ----- PMCG wrote: -----
   
    Hi,
    I am using the XMLSerializer class to serialize a custom class into a memory stream whose contents i then pass to a MSSQL SP that uses the sp_xml_preparedocument SP, i can serialize the class but get secape characters in the XML when i read from the memory stream. I do not know much about encoding so i may be missing something very obvious here, heres some of the code
   
    _Serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass));
    _Stream = new MemoryStream();
    _Writer = new XmlTextWriter(_Stream, new UTF8Encoding());
    _Serializer.Serialize(_Writer, _MyClassInstance);
   
    _strXmlData = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(_Stream.ToArray());
   
   
    I get the following XML, i need to get XML without the escape characters
   
    <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?><c-c xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"> ......................................
   
   
   
    Thanks in advance
    Pat