DocumentBuilder.Parse() if converting & amp; into &

Hi,
I have a dom document which I have converted into a String and one of the Nodes had & amp; in it.
When I then parse the string back into a Dom Document the parser converts the & amp; back into a &.... and this causes my problems later on.
Does anyone know How I can get round this.
The whole I am converting a document into a string and back again is because the Dom document isn't serializable.
Any ideas?
Jag

well, that's the job of the parser to resolve entities, therefore converting & into a & is correct.

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