See the question and my original answer on StackOverflow

It's the XmlTextWriter which is responsible for outputting escaped entities. So if you do this, for example:

        using (XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter("test.xml", Encoding.UTf8))
        {
            w.WriteString("");
        }

You will also get an escaped ampersand output in text.xml &#x10, which you don't want. You would like to keep the  sequence raw, as is.

The solution I propose is to create a new StreamWriter implementation capable of detecting an escaped string like "":

    // A StreamWriter that does not escape 
 characters
    public class NonXmlEscapingStreamWriter : StreamWriter
    {
        private const string AmpToken = "amp";
        private int _bufferState = 0; // used to keep state

        // add other ctors overloads if needed
        public NonXmlEscapingStreamWriter(string path)
            : base(path)
        {
        }

        // NOTE this code is based on the assumption that StreamWriter
        // only overrides these 4 Write functions, which is true today but could change in the future
        // and also on the assumption that the XmlTextWrite writes escaped values in a specific WriteXX calls sequence
        public override void Write(char value)
        {
            if (value == '&')
            {
                if (_bufferState == 0)
                {
                    _bufferState++;
                    return; // hold it
                }
                else
                {
                    _bufferState = 0;
                }
            }
            else if (value == ';')
            {
                if (_bufferState > 1)
                {
                    _bufferState++;
                    return;
                }
                else
                {
                    Write('&'); // release what's been held
                    Write(AmpToken);
                    _bufferState = 0;
                }
            }
            else if (value == '\n') // detect non escaped \n
            {
                base.Write("
");
                return;
            }
            base.Write(value);
        }

        public override void Write(string value)
        {
            if (_bufferState > 0)
            {
                if (value == AmpToken)
                {
                    _bufferState++;
                    return; // hold it
                }
                else
                {
                    Write('&'); // release what's been held
                    _bufferState = 0;
                }
            }
            base.Write(value);
        }

        public override void Write(char[] buffer, int index, int count)
        {
            if (_bufferState > 2)
            {
                _bufferState = 0;
                base.Write('&'); // release this anyway
                string replace;
                if ((buffer != null) && ((replace = GetReplaceLength(buffer, index, count)) != null))
                {
                    base.Write(replace);
                    base.Write(buffer, index + replace.Length, count - replace.Length);
                    return;
                }
                else
                {
                    base.Write(AmpToken); // release this
                    base.Write(';'); // release this
                }
            }
            base.Write(buffer, index, count);
        }

        public override void Write(char[] buffer)
        {
            Write(buffer, 0, buffer != null ? buffer.Length : 0);
        }

        private string GetReplaceLength(char[] buffer, int index, int count)
        {
            // this is specific to the 10 character but could be adapted
            const string token = "#10;";
            if ((index + count) < token.Length)
                return null;

            // we test the char array to avoid string allocations
            for(int i = 0; i < token.Length; i++)
            {
                if (buffer[index + i] != token[i])
                    return null;
            }
            return token;
        }
    }

And you can use it like this:

    using (XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(new NonXmlEscapingStreamWriter("test.xml")))
    {
        element.WriteTo(w);
    }

NOTE: Although it is capable of detecting lonely \n sequences, I suggest you ensure all \n are actually escaped in your original text, so, you need to replace \n by &#x10; before you actually output xml, like this:

string example = "This is a string&#x10;With new lines in it&#x10;";