The following is a segment of code that adds a node to an XML document:

oChild = oXml.CreateElement("Fld");
oChild.InnerText = ""; 
oAttr = oXml.CreateAttribute("name");
oAttr.Value = "REQUESTOR";
oChild.Attributes.SetNamedItem(oAttr);
oRoot.AppendChild(oChild);

Even though .InnerText is empty string, the node in XML file looks like this:

<Fld name="REQUESTOR">
</Fld>

And when I programatically extract the value from the XML file, it contains:
chr(13)Chr(10)and then bunch of chr(32)

Instead, I would expect it to be:

<Fld name="REQUESTOR"></Fld>

Why does .net insert CR and bunch of empty characters when InnerText should be empty string?

Thank you.