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Reading and writing an XML file

Hello folks!

I have to read an XML file, add some elements and write it back.

I seem to have no problem doing the first 2 things but then I get

The process cannot access the file "c:/file.xml" because it is being used by
another process.

... when I try to do the third thing: saving.

This is how I am doing it:

XmlDocument oXml=new XmlDocument();
oXml.Load(new XmlTextReader(@ "c:\file.xml")) ;

// do the element work here

oXml.Save(new XmlTextWriter(@ "c:\file.xm l", System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII));

The error occurs right at the Save call.

Any of you more experienced folks ever tried to do anything like this?

Thanks!

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Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL
My on-line aviation community -> http://www.thepilotlounge.com
Nov 12 '05 #1
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You have to explicitly call Close on the XmlTextReader before trying to
create the XmlTextWriter.

"Marco Rispoli" <ri******@opton line.net> wrote in message
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Hello folks!

I have to read an XML file, add some elements and write it back.

I seem to have no problem doing the first 2 things but then I get

The process cannot access the file "c:/file.xml" because it is being used by another process.

.. when I try to do the third thing: saving.

This is how I am doing it:

XmlDocument oXml=new XmlDocument();
oXml.Load(new XmlTextReader(@ "c:\file.xml")) ;

// do the element work here

oXml.Save(new XmlTextWriter(@ "c:\file.xm l", System.Text.Enc oding.ASCII));

The error occurs right at the Save call.

Any of you more experienced folks ever tried to do anything like this?

Thanks!

--
Marco Rispoli - NJ, USA / PP-ASEL
My on-line aviation community -> http://www.thepilotlounge.com

Nov 12 '05 #2

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