i'm developing a .net application which consumes a java web service, i created the client through wsdl.exe tool and its working fine, one of the method of the web service, receives an xml document as a parameter, and im using an `XmlTextWriter` to generate the document, but im having problems when including special characters inside the xml document for example:

The document im generating looks like this:

```
<xml-parameter>
  <some-field> this is text whit a (>) charatcer</some-field>
</xml-parameter>

```

Using fliddler to inspect the generated request, i see that its begin escaped like this:

```
&lt;xml-parameter&gt;
  &lt;some-field&gt; this is a text whit a (&amp;gt;) character $lt;/some-field&gt;
&lt;xml-parameter&gt;

```

I can see is beign escaped as "**& amp;gt;**" instead of **&gt ;** i all ready tried using the entity instead of the actual character whit no luck
thanks in advance =).

Edit:
here's the code is use to generate the xml, basically i use a memory stream and xmltextwriter to generate xml and then read the whole stream, i pass the generated xml to my service proxy.

```
string query = "/AGS_Polizas/INBOUNDLINK/@SOURCEITEMREF = > * ";

        MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream();
        XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(stream, Encoding.UTF8);
        writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
        writer.Indentation = 4;
        writer.WriteStartDocument(true);
        writer.WriteStartElement("RunQueryRequest");
        writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "http://www.ibm.com/xmlns/db2/cm/beans/1.0/schema");
        writer.WriteAttributeString("maxResults", "0");
        writer.WriteAttributeString("version", "latest-version(.)");
        writer.WriteAttributeString("contentOption", "URL");
        writer.WriteAttributeString("retrieveOption", "ITEMTREE");

        writer.WriteStartElement("AuthenticationData");
        writer.WriteAttributeString("connectString", "SCHEMA=ICMADMIN");
        writer.WriteAttributeString("configString", "");

        writer.WriteStartElement("ServerDef");

        writer.WriteStartElement("ServerType");
        writer.WriteString("ICM");
        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteStartElement("ServerName");
        writer.WriteString("icmnlsdb");
        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteStartElement("LoginData");

        writer.WriteStartElement("UserID");
        writer.WriteString("icmadmin");
        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteStartElement("Password");
        writer.WriteString("Passw0rd");
        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteEndElement();            
        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteStartElement("QueryCriteria");
        writer.WriteStartElement("QueryString");
        writer.WriteString(query);
        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.WriteEndElement();

        writer.Flush();

        stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
        StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(stream);
        string xml = reader.ReadToEnd();
        writer.Close();
        reader.Close();

```