Read XSD to string

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Hi

I have an xsd that I want to save as an XML string to store in a DB
I can save as a physical file using
xsd.WriteXml(@"C:\Temp\Junk\junk.xml");
But I am unable to save to a string so I can write string to a db
I tried to a MemoryStream but it seems to be empty ???
There is data
because the above WriteXML files a text file

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
xsd.WriteXml(ms);
// Create a stream reader.
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ms);

// Just read to the end.
string sXMLFile = reader.ReadToEnd();

Thanks

[Pavel Minaev]

sippyuconn wrote:

Hi

I have an xsd that I want to save as an XML string to store in a DB
I can save as a physical file using
xsd.WriteXml(@"C:\Temp\Junk\junk.xml");
But I am unable to save to a string so I can write string to a db
I tried to a MemoryStream but it seems to be empty ???
There is data
because the above WriteXML files a text file

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
xsd.WriteXml(ms);
// Create a stream reader.
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ms);

// Just read to the end.
string sXMLFile = reader.ReadToEnd();

The stream is not empty; what you forget is that, after data is
written to the stream, its current position is at the end. You need to
manually set it to the start of the stream to read what you've just
wrote, like this:

ms.Position = 0

Also, if what you want is to get a plain C# string, then you might
want to use StringWriter instead of MemoryStream.

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi sippy,

In addition to Pavel's suggestion. here is another way you can try:

Using the StringWriter which can help get the XmlSchema(or any other class
which will need a stream/TextWriter to output). And you can use
StringWriter.ToString() to get the underlying outputed string. Here is a
simple test code you can refer to:

====================================

static void Main(string[] args)
{
//load xsd from file
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"..\..\test.xsd");
XmlSchema xsd = XmlSchema.Read(sr, null);
sr.Close();

//output it into string
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
xsd.Write(sw);

string data2store = sw.ToString();
//import it from string
XmlSchema xsd1 = XmlSchema.Read(new StringReader(data2store),
null);

xsd1.Write(Console.Out);
}
===========================

Sincerely,

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Hi

I have an xsd that I want to save as an XML string to store in a DB
I can save as a physical file using
xsd.WriteXml(@"C:\Temp\Junk\junk.xml");
But I am unable to save to a string so I can write string to a db
I tried to a MemoryStream but it seems to be empty ???
There is data
because the above WriteXML files a text file

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
xsd.WriteXml(ms);
// Create a stream reader.
StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(ms);

// Just read to the end.
string sXMLFile = reader.ReadToEnd();

Thanks

[Steven Cheng [MSFT]]

Hi sippy,

How are you doing?

Does the suggestion in my last reply help you on this issue? If there is
any further questions on this, welcome to post here.

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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>From: st*****@online.microsoft.com (Steven Cheng [MSFT])
Organization: Microsoft
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:24:52 GMT
Subject: RE: Read XSD to string

>Hi sippy,

In addition to Pavel's suggestion. here is another way you can try:

Using the StringWriter which can help get the XmlSchema(or any other class
which will need a stream/TextWriter to output). And you can use
StringWriter.ToString() to get the underlying outputed string. Here is a
simple test code you can refer to:

====================================

static void Main(string[] args)
{
//load xsd from file
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(@"..\..\test.xsd");
XmlSchema xsd = XmlSchema.Read(sr, null);
sr.Close();

//output it into string
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
xsd.Write(sw);

string data2store = sw.ToString();
//import it from string
XmlSchema xsd1 = XmlSchema.Read(new StringReader(data2store),
null);

xsd1.Write(Console.Out);
}
===========================

Sincerely,

Steven Cheng

Microsoft MSDN Online Support Lead
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