you mean like netscape 1992
with document.write in the browser ?
===========================
NO !
Just look at the tripple verbosity
of the object "XmlTextWriter"
<sam.collett@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:1111078247.088050.71170@g14g2000cwa.googlegro ups.com...[color=blue]
> Is there a basic guide on Xml document creation and editing (simpler
> than the MSDN docs). Say I want to create a file containing the
> following:
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <Files>
> <File>
> <Text>Test</Text>
> <Name>Test.html</Name>
> </File>
> </Files>
>
>
> I know how you can use XMLTextWriter to do this:
>
> XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter("myfile.xml",
> System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
> xtw.WriteStartDocument(true);
> xtw.WriteStartElement("Files");
> xtw.WriteStartElement("File");
> xtw.WriteElementString("Text", txtName.Text);
> xtw.WriteElementString("Name", FileName);
> xtw.WriteEndElement();
> xtw.WriteEndElement();
> xtw.WriteEndDocument();
> xtw.Close();
>
> However, how do you check if the file exists, and append to it instead
> of overwriting?
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <Files>
> <File>
> <Text>Test</Text>
> <Name>Test.html</Name>
> </File>
> <File>
> <Text>Test 2</Text>
> <Name>Test2.html</Name>
> </File>
> </Files>
>
> Also, I may wish to delete an existing entry, under certain
> circumstances (file deleted from disk):
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <Files>
> <File>
> <Text>Test 2</Text>
> <Name>Test2.html</Name>
> </File>
> </Files>
>
> And also, prevent duplicate entries being added (re uploading a file).
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
> <Files>
> <File>
> <Text>Test</Text>
> <Name>Test.html</Name>
> </File>
> <File>
> <Text>Test 2</Text>
> <Name>Test2.html</Name>
> </File>
> <File>
> <Text>Test</Text>
> <Name>Test.html</Name>
> </File>
> </Files>
>
> I know there is a class library at the code project that writes to XML
> files (
http://www.codeproject.com/csharp/ReadWriteXmlIni.asp), but it
> does far more than I need and I would rather learn how to do it myself
> than rely on a third party library.
>
> I would also like to read the xml from the file and then display in a
> page (links to documents, Text is the link text, Name is the file
> name). Bound to a repeater, also displaying file size by querying the
> file system.
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