Problem outputting xml from ASP.Net page

I want to output XML from an ASP.Net page and have created the code below:

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 using System;

using System.Data;

using System.Configuration;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Web;

using System.Data.SqlClient;

using System.Xml;

using System.Text;

using System.Data.OleDb;
 
public partial class Resources_Booking_xmlBookingData : System.Web.UI.Page

{

    public DateTime SelectedDate = System.DateTime.Today;

    public DateTime FirstofWeek = System.DateTime.Today;

    public int ResourceCategory;
 
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)

    {

        // Create a new XmlTextWriter instance

        XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(Response.OutputStream, Encoding.UTF8);
 
        Response.Cache.SetCacheability(HttpCacheability.NoCache);
 
        // Start Writing

        writer.WriteStartDocument();
 
        /* MY ACTUAL XML, GENERATED FROM DB QUERIES */

    }

}

But this just outputs a blank browser window, with the following source:

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 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">

<HTML><HEAD>

<META content="text/html; charset=utf-8" http-equiv=Content-Type></HEAD>

<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Maybe I am missing something obvious, can anyone see what it may be?

Sep 30 '09 #1

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I'm surprised that you're even seeing that HTML...

Browsers use HTML in order to determine how to display the output.
You can't just send a browser any old XML...it has to be HTML in order to display.

If you are writing XML directly to the output stream then you are sending the browser XML, not HTML.

How is the browser supposed to know what to do with it?

-Frinny

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