retaining leading whitespace in text of an xml node

[Steve Richter]

when I run the following code the leading spaces of the "data" node
are removed. How do I retain whitespace?

private void CreateBasicXmlD ocument()
{
XmlWriterSettin gs writeSettings = new XmlWriterSettin gs();
writeSettings.I ndent = true;
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Creat e( filePath, writeSettings );
writer.WriteSta rtElement("data ");
writer.WriteWhi tespace(" ");
writer.WriteVal ue(" data with leading space");
writer.WriteEnd Element();
writer.Close();
}

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Steve,

I think you need to set the XmlSpace attribute of the XmlWriter to
XmlSpace.Preser ve.

--BJ

"Steve Richter" wrote:

when I run the following code the leading spaces of the "data" node
are removed. How do I retain whitespace?

private void CreateBasicXmlD ocument()
{
XmlWriterSettin gs writeSettings = new XmlWriterSettin gs();
writeSettings.I ndent = true;
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Creat e( filePath, writeSettings );
writer.WriteSta rtElement("data ");
writer.WriteWhi tespace(" ");
writer.WriteVal ue(" data with leading space");
writer.WriteEnd Element();
writer.Close();
}

[Steve Richter]

On Feb 19, 12:36 pm, BJ Safdie <MSDNNospam...@ nospam.nospamwr ote:

Steve,

I think you need to set the XmlSpace attribute of the XmlWriter to
XmlSpace.Preser ve.

I tried that. the XmlSpace attribute is read only. very confusing!

-Steve

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--BJ

"Steve Richter" wrote:

when I run the following code the leading spaces of the "data" node
are removed. How do I retain whitespace?

private void CreateBasicXmlD ocument()
{
XmlWriterSettin gs writeSettings = new XmlWriterSettin gs();
writeSettings.I ndent = true;

XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Creat e( filePath, writeSettings );

writer.WriteSta rtElement("data ");
writer.WriteWhi tespace(" ");
writer.WriteVal ue(" data with leading space");
writer.WriteEnd Element();
writer.Close();
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[Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]]

Hi Steve,

The white spaces you add are there. Your code appends a single space character in front of the value.

If you are missing the indentation, bear in mind that WriteWhiteSpace isonly used when manually formatting the xml, which means effectively overriding the indentation. Furthermore, indentation won't happen on the innermost node, and since you only have a single node it won't be broken on two lines. The code below is probably more what you seek.

writer.WriteSta rtElement("data ");
writer.WriteSta rtElement("inne rdata");
writer.WriteVal ue(" data with leading space");
writer.WriteEnd Element();
writer.WriteEnd Element();
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 18:10:35 +0100, Steve Richter <St************ @gmail.comwrote :

when I run the following code the leading spaces of the "data" node
are removed. How do I retain whitespace?

private void CreateBasicXmlD ocument()
{
XmlWriterSettin gs writeSettings = new XmlWriterSettin gs();
writeSettings.I ndent = true;
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Creat e( filePath, writeSettings );
writer.WriteSta rtElement("data ");
writer.WriteWhi tespace(" ");
writer.WriteVal ue(" data with leading space");
writer.WriteEnd Element();
writer.Close();
}

--
Happy coding!
Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]

[Steve Richter]

On Feb 19, 1:01 pm, "Morten Wennevik [C# MVP]"
<MortenWenne... @hotmail.comwro te:

Hi Steve,

The white spaces you add are there. Your code appends a single space character in front
of the value.

your right! <smacks head I was displaying the xml document thru
Windows Explorer -Internet Explorer. Whatever font it was in really
shrunk down the whitespace.

thanks,

-Steve