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How can I preserve entity characters using Xml Document?

My question is simple, but I just can't find why I have this problem and can't resolve it.
I need to read a XML file with values and use them on Unity. For now on, I read my document with its path :
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(path);
XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement;
I have a Namespace Manager already configured.
I read my data like this :
string text = node.SelectSingleNode("x:textRuns/x:DOMTextRun/x:characters", nsmgr).InnerText.Replace("
", Environment.NewLine);
My XML and the data I would like to extract :
<characters>Third occupant
folding seat</characters>
My objective is to replace this entity character : "& #xD;" with an Environment.NewLine.
I tried to :
Formalize the Xml in a file with a replace
Read with an InnerText, and an InnerXml
Make an entity char "detector"
Get the node with all its content (OuterXML)
It looks like this char, however you read it, is exclude and not readable, I just can't have it on my console.

The entity has already been replaced once you extracted InnerText. Problem is, you have a CR (carriage return; 0x0D, \r) instead of a LF (line feed; 0x0A, \n). So replace "\r" by Environment.NewLine:
public static void Main() {
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml("<characters>Third occupant
folding seat</characters>");
string text = doc.SelectSingleNode("/characters").InnerText;
text = text.Replace("\r", Environment.NewLine);
Console.WriteLine(text);
}

XmlWriter trimming my string

I am trying to return an XML string as a CLOB from Oracle stored procedure to C# string.
Then I am write this string to a file using XmlWriter class.
My code looks like following:
string myString= ((Oracle.ManagedDataAccess.Types.OracleClob)(cmd.Parameters["paramName"].Value)).Value.ToString();
string fileName = DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyyMMddHHmmss");
var stream = new MemoryStream();
var writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream);
writer.WriteRaw(myString);
stream.Position = 0;
var fileStreamResult = File(stream, "application/octet-stream", "ABCD"+fileName+".xml");
return fileStreamResult;
When I checked my CLOB output it returns completely to myString.
When I check my end result, XML file is trimmed at the end.
My string will be huge for ex: Length of 3382563 and more.
Is there any setting for XmlWriter to write the complete string to file.
Thanks in advance.

Sounds like all you want to do is grab some string value out of your Database, and write that string value in a text file. The string being xml does not actually force you into using an XML specific class or method unless you want to do XML specific operations, which I do not see in your snippet. Therefore, I suggest you simply grab the string value and spit it out in a file in the easiest way.
string myString = " blah blah blah keep my spaces ";
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(#"M:\StackOverflowQuestionsAndAnswers\XMLWriterTrimmingString_45380476\bin\Debug\outputfile.xml"))
{
sw.Write(myString);
}

How to get only xml from file in c#?

I have a problem with parsing file with XmlReader. I have a file containing info like this:
<Users>
<User>
<Email>email</Email>
<Key>23456</Key>
</User>
</Users>
asdfsof48f43uf489f3yf3y39fh3f489f3hf94[t]45.54tv,]5t
File contains xml values and then encrypted data from byte[] array.
The problem I've encountered is when i use:
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(fileName))
{
while (reader.Read())
{
//parsing
}
}
I got 'System.Xml.XmlException' at line where encrypted bytes begin.
My question is: how to retrieve only xml part and only byte[] part?

If in case the encrypted data is always the last line you can use below snippet to read only XML part of data given that the XML data is limited in size
var fileLines = File.ReadAllLines(#"c:\temp\file.txt");
var xmlFromFile = string.Join("", fileLines, 0, fileLines.Length - 1);
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(new StringReader(xmlFromFile)))
{
// Your logic goes here
}

you can do string parsing...
int start, end;
string myFile = File.ReadAllText("...");
start = myFile .IndexOf("<Users>");
end = myFile .IndexOf("</Users>") + 8;
myFile = myFile.Substring(start, end-start);
At that point you can load it into a xml document if you want. This all depends on you being 100% sure about the file format. This is a pretty fragile answer, so don't use it if you don't have a total trust in your input file.

How to read and output the XML within an SPFile?

I have this line of code that retrieves and XML file and saves it to an SPFile
SPFile XMLFile = SPContext.Current.Web.GetFile("C:\\Users\\maleem\\Documents\\XMLTest.xml");
I want to get the XML/Text within it and output it to a literal, I tried
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(XMLFile.OpenBinaryStream());
And a few variants but its not working.

If you use the OpenBinary method of SPFile the return is a byte array you can then convert it into a string.
Depending on the encoding you can try this:
For default encoding:
string str = System.Text.Encoding.Default.GetString(XMLFile.OpenBinary());
For UTF8:
string str = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetString(XMLFile.OpenBinary());

convert string to a xml file?

How to save a well formed xml string to a xml file ?
Thanks in advance...
Hi All.... I got the answer
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
xmlDoc.LoadXml("WellFormedXMLString");
xmlDoc.Save(#"drive:\name.xml");

What's wrong with simply writing your string to disk?
using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(#"C:\file.xml"))
{
writer.Write("Xml data");
writer.Flush();
}
or if you want to "test" it:
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
try
{
doc.LoadXml(data);
}
catch
{
// Fix it
}
doc.Save(#"C:\file.xml");

You can write any string to disk like so:
File.WriteAllText(#"c:\myfile.xml", yourXmlString);
If you have a string that is not a well-formed xml string and you want to convert that to some other format, you will have to give us some example of what you want to do.

I am no C# programmer, but I guess you need something like this:
xmlwriter tutorial

Save the string straight onto the disk. No need to convert it into XML.

Why do you need xml if it's just a string ? You could save a text file with the variabele name, and the string inside as variable value.
for example
MyTextVar1.txt would contain "MyTestSTring"
then you could get the var by:
var mystring = GetFileAsString( "MyTextVar1.txt" );

The xml document is a text file itself. you only need to change its extension.