Quickly escape strings in xml

If you spend much time working with xml, you will find yourself needing to escape strings. Replacing '<' with '&lt;' for example. Usually the code written to do so looks something like this:

escapedItem = itemToEscape.Replace("&", "&")

                          .Replace("<", "&lt;")

                          .Replace(">", ">")

                          .Replace("'", "'")

                          .Replace("\"", """);

Though this technically works, there is an easier way built right in to the .Net framework. If we reference System.Security we can replace the above code with

escapedItem = SecurityElement.Escape(itemToEscape);

In both cases, the string

If (x < 2) & (y > 3), where \"x\" isn't...

is replaced with

If (x < 2) & (y > 3), where "x" isn't...