Creating XML Text

[John Bowman]

Hello,

I need to create some well formed XML text live in memory. What I really
want is to use the XmlTextWriter object applied to some location in memory
(Stream or something?), because it does a nice job of formatting/identing,
etc. But I can't figure out how to instantiate the XmlTextWriter object
correctly w/o a filespec. I'm not allowed to directly instantiate a Stream &
therefore a StreamWriter for that matter since there's no filespec involved.
Can someone show me some code to make this work?

TIA,

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John C. Bowman
Software Engineer
Thermo Electron Scientific Instruments Div.
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[Martin Honnen]

John Bowman < wrote:

I need to create some well formed XML text live in memory. What I really
want is to use the XmlTextWriter object applied to some location in memory
(Stream or something?), because it does a nice job of formatting/identing,
etc. But I can't figure out how to instantiate the XmlTextWriter object
correctly w/o a filespec. I'm not allowed to directly instantiate a Stream &
therefore a StreamWriter for that matter since there's no filespec involved.
Can someone show me some code to make this work?

You could use a StringWriter as a TextWriter to create the XmlTextWriter on:

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("gods");
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("god");
xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("name", "Kibo");
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.Flush();
xmlWriter.Close();
Console.WriteLine(stringWriter.ToString());
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[John Bowman]

Martin,

Thanks! That works great.

John

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John Bowman < wrote:

I need to create some well formed XML text live in memory. What I really
want is to use the XmlTextWriter object applied to some location in
memory (Stream or something?), because it does a nice job of
formatting/identing, etc. But I can't figure out how to instantiate the
XmlTextWriter object correctly w/o a filespec. I'm not allowed to
directly instantiate a Stream & therefore a StreamWriter for that matter
since there's no filespec involved. Can someone show me some code to make
this work?

You could use a StringWriter as a TextWriter to create the XmlTextWriter
on:

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("gods");
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("god");
xmlWriter.WriteAttributeString("name", "Kibo");
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.Flush();
xmlWriter.Close();
Console.WriteLine(stringWriter.ToString());
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Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/