How to get full HTML and have HTML entities not escaped?

Using HtmlParser, I’m changing some nodes. E.g. I’m inserting something like — and other entities.

When accessing the InnerHtml property, the (e.g.) — is returned as —. This is wrong in my scenario.

In contrast, the TextContent returns — correctly but omits all contained HTML tags.

My question:

Is there a way to get the full content of the HtmlParser without HTML entities being “destroyed”?

[FlorianRappl]

Thanks Uwe! I’m glad you found a workaround / solution for your problem. Always at your service!

[FlorianRappl]

Thanks for giving me some context. Yes, from the snippet it seems that this is indeed the problem. The NodeValue is quite a generic property, which maps to nothing except for CharacterData nodes (e.g., comments or text nodes) and entities (which are not used in HTML as they are resolved directly; this is an historic type of node that is a left-over from XML). Hence you already set the literal text (same as setting TextContent).

Either you use the previously mentioned HtmlEntityService to do the conversion yourself, or you leave it up to a parser by parsing a fragment of the snippet you want to insert.