BUG - XML Escaping in .NET

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When adding special characters to an XML document they are escaped to distiguish them from their normal use within the body of the document

e.g. & becomes &amp
< becomes &lt; etc

My problem is that when adding text to my XML it is failing to escape apostrophe into the form &apos
When I do this manually the adding to the document results in the escaping of the ampersand giving me &amp;apos

The text I am adding is to an XMLDocument and I'm using the InnerText property of the selected node

Am I doing something wrong and if not does anyone know of a work around
 
Ken said:
When adding special characters to an XML document they are escaped to
distiguish them from their normal use within the body of the
document.
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Who's doing the escaping here? Could you give a short but complete
example which demonstrates the problem?

See http://www.pobox.com/~skeet/csharp/complete.html for more details.

Note that apostrophes only need to be escaped in XML if they're in
attributes, not if they're in text nodes.
 
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