How do I stop XElement.Save from escaping characters?

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Published on 2010-04-02T00:08:22Z Indexed on 2010/04/02 0:13 UTC
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I'm populating an XElement with information and writing it to an xml file using the XElement.Save(path) method. At some point, certain characters in the resulting file are being escaped - for example, > becomes >.

This behaviour is unacceptable, since I need to store information in the XML that includes the > character as part of a password. How can I write the 'raw' content of my XElement object to XML without having these escaped?

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