Backslashes "\" are added after converting XDocument to string using ToString method-CodePudding

After converting XDocument to string using .ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting) method. Backslashes are added next to the double quotes in tag attributes.

Example of my XML construction using XDocument:

XNamespace xmlns = "http://www.w3.org/2001/10/synthesis";
            var xdec = new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes");
            XDocument xml = new XDocument(
                    xdec,
                    new XElement(
                        xmlns   "speak",
                        new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xml   "lang", "en")));

             var xmlString = xml.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting); // backslashes "\" are added

Output image example:

How shall I remove these backslashes? Thanks.

CodePudding user response：

Backslashes are here to tell that double quotes are part of the string and do not indicate end of it. If you would have for example:

var myFavouriteQuoteStatement = "My favourite quote is "I like bread"";

Visual studio would mark this line with error because compiler would consider "My favourite quote is " as your string as myFavouriteQuoteStatement variable and the rest of it I like bread"" would be consider as garbage that cannot be compiled.

Valid string would be:

var myFavouriteQuoteStatement = "My favourite quote is \"I like bread\"";

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