XMLTextReader does not convert reference characters

[a_developer]

Hi

I read an XML file with an XMLTextReader and in the CDATA section there are
reference characters ( characters in the form &-#-x-0. There are no dashes
of course I just placed them so that they will not be converted to a single
char by your browser )

The reader returns the encoded string instead of the character
what am I doing wrong?

thanks