Cant create xmlElement using xmlWriter in C#.net

[Hiren Mistry]

Hello, Experts.

as i didnt got solution for "Creating XML from DTD"

So finally i started creating DTD parser in C#.net......... ..

Now i m facing problem while i create an xml element with name as "ectd:ectd"
using xmlwriter...... ..

but it gives an error or exception as ':' not valide character for xml element name

please help me :)

Hiren Mistry

[Motoma]

I have moved your thread to the .NET forum with the hopes that the experts there will have more information about the error you are receiving.

[Hiren Mistry]

Thanks for taking interest in this

private void button3_Click(o bject sender, EventArgs e)
{

mxDoc = new XmlDocument();
XmlWriterSettin gs settings = new XmlWriterSettin gs();
//settings.CheckC haracters = false;
settings.Indent = true;
//Predefined declaration of xml file
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Creat e("C:\\Index.xm l", settings);


string dtdFile = @"D:\Work\eCTD\ eCTDProj\eCTD\e CTD\bin\Debug\P roduct_Name\000 0\util\dtd\ich-ectd-3-3-3.dtd";

StreamReader sr = File.OpenText(d tdFile);
string dtdData = sr.ReadToEnd();
sr.Close();
//MessageBox.Show (dtdData.ToStri ng());

char[] charData = new Char[dtdData.Length];
string[] strData = new string[dtdData.Length];


strData = dtdData.Split(' \n');
for (int i = 0; i < strData.Length - 1; i++)
{
string dtdLine="";
if (strData[i].Length != 0)
{
if (strData[i].Contains("?xml ")) //simple declaration of xml file
{
writer.WriteSta rtDocument();

//writer.WriteSta rtDocument(fals e);
// Write the DocumentType node.
writer.WriteDoc Type("ectd:ectd ", null, null, "\"util/style/ich-ectd-3-3-3.dtd\"");

// Write the Processing Instruction node.
String PItext = "type=\"tex t/xsl\" href=\"util/style/ectd-2-1-2.xsl\"";
writer.WritePro cessingInstruct ion("xml-stylesheet", PItext);

// Write a Comment node.
writer.WriteCom ment("sample XML");


}
MessageBox.Show (strData[i]);
if (strData[i].Contains("!ELE MENT"))
{

if (strData[i].Contains("ectd :ectd"))
{
string[] test= strData[i].Split(' ');
// Write the root element.


writer.WriteSta rtElement("rdf: RDF");








i++; //Next line check attribute list
if (strData[i].Contains("ATTL IST"))
{
while (!strData[i].Contains("!ELE MENT"))
{
i++;
// Write the genre attribute.
writer.WriteAtt ributeString("g enre", "novel");
MessageBox.Show (strData[i]);
}
}
}
else if (strData[i].Contains("m1-"))
{
dtdLine = strData[i];
MessageBox.Show ("m1 : "+dtdLine);

//charData = data.ToCharArra y();
//charData[index] = '>';

}
else if (strData[i].Contains("m2-"))
{
MessageBox.Show ("This is m2 module");
}
else if (strData[i].Contains("m3-"))
{
MessageBox.Show ("This is m3 module");
}
else if (strData[i].Contains("m4-"))
{
MessageBox.Show ("This is m4 module");
}
else if (strData[i].Contains("m5-"))
{
MessageBox.Show ("This is m5 module");
}
else
{
MessageBox.Show ("This is declaration ");
}

i++; //Next line check attribute list
if(strData[i].Contains("ATTL IST"))
{
MessageBox.Show (strData[i]);
}
}
else
{ }
}
else
{
//skip line
}
}

//charData = data.ToCharArra y();
//charData[index] = '>';

//StreamWriter sw = File.CreateText (dtdFile);
//sw.Write(new String(charData ));
//sw.Close();

}


code is like this only