XML formatting question

[Jason Hurder]

Hello all,

After I've constructed an XmlDocument object composed of XmlNodes, I
send the actual InnerXml contents to a server where my XML is processed.
However, elements that have no InnerText end up looking like this:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST" MessageKeyword="REASON" />

however, I need the closing tag to be fully expanded as such:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST"
MessageKeyword="REASON"></PartMessage>

Is there a method or property for either the XmlDocument or the
individual XmlNode objects that will format my text the way I've
described? Thank you much!

Jason

[Jason Hurder]

My mistake, I meant to say my document is composed of XmlElements as
opposed to XmlNodes.

Thanks!

Jason Hurder wrote:

Hello all,

After I've constructed an XmlDocument object composed of XmlNodes, I
send the actual InnerXml contents to a server where my XML is processed.
However, elements that have no InnerText end up looking like this:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST" MessageKeyword="REASON" />

however, I need the closing tag to be fully expanded as such:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST"
MessageKeyword="REASON"></PartMessage>

Is there a method or property for either the XmlDocument or the
individual XmlNode objects that will format my text the way I've
described? Thank you much!

Jason

[Dennis Myrén]

I would like to know why you need to format the XML in that way.
Is it really necessary?
Although i am not sure, i do not think there is a way to make XmlNode format
the xml as you want.
You could place a character in the node, like a space, to force the format
you want.
You could also achieve that format by using
System.Xml.XmlWriter(XmlTextWriter), using
the WriteRaw method to manually compose the source of the XML node.
--
Regards,
Dennis JD Myrén
Oslo Kodebureau
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Hello all,

After I've constructed an XmlDocument object composed of XmlNodes, I send
the actual InnerXml contents to a server where my XML is processed.
However, elements that have no InnerText end up looking like this:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST" MessageKeyword="REASON" />

however, I need the closing tag to be fully expanded as such:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST"
MessageKeyword="REASON"></PartMessage>

Is there a method or property for either the XmlDocument or the individual
XmlNode objects that will format my text the way I've described? Thank you
much!

Jason

[Martin Honnen]

Jason Hurder wrote:

After I've constructed an XmlDocument object composed of XmlNodes, I
send the actual InnerXml contents to a server where my XML is processed.
However, elements that have no InnerText end up looking like this:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST" MessageKeyword="REASON" />

however, I need the closing tag to be fully expanded as such:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST"
MessageKeyword="REASON"></PartMessage>

Is there a method or property for either the XmlDocument or the
individual XmlNode objects that will format my text the way I've
described?

Yes, within .NET for XmlElement objects you can set
element.IsEmpty = false;
and then the serialization is done in the
<tag></tag>
for.
Here is a short example

XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.LoadXml(@"<gods>
<god name=""Kibo"" />
<god name=""Xibo"" />
</gods>");
Console.WriteLine("Serialized XML: {0}", xmlDocument.OuterXml);
foreach (XmlNode node in xmlDocument.GetElementsByTagName("god")) {
(node as XmlElement).IsEmpty = false;
}
Console.WriteLine("Serialized XML: {0}", xmlDocument.OuterXml);
}

Output is

Serialized XML: <gods><god name="Kibo" /><god name="Xibo" /></gods>
Serialized XML: <gods><god name="Kibo"></god><god name="Xibo"></god></gods>

so that is what you are looking for I think.
--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Jason Hurder]

Martin - thank you very much, that did the trick.

One other question - is it possible to format the InnerXml property to
include insignificant white space? So instead of this:

<SrcMeta Name="StoreNo" Value="02" /><SrcMeta Name="SysID"
Value="183161305750757" /><SrcMeta Name="SysType" Value="ERA" /><SrcMeta
Name="BranchNo" Value="01" />

I end up with this?

<SrcMeta Name="StoreNo" Value="02" />
<SrcMeta Name="SysID" Value="183161305750757" />
<SrcMeta Name="SysType" Value="ERA" />
<SrcMeta Name="BranchNo" Value="01" />

This isn't necessary, just makes it a whole lot easier to read in
notepad. Thanks!

Martin Honnen wrote:

Jason Hurder wrote:

After I've constructed an XmlDocument object composed of XmlNodes, I
send the actual InnerXml contents to a server where my XML is
processed. However, elements that have no InnerText end up looking
like this:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST" MessageKeyword="REASON" />

however, I need the closing tag to be fully expanded as such:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST"
MessageKeyword="REASON"></PartMessage>

Is there a method or property for either the XmlDocument or the
individual XmlNode objects that will format my text the way I've
described?

Yes, within .NET for XmlElement objects you can set
element.IsEmpty = false;
and then the serialization is done in the
<tag></tag>
for.
Here is a short example

XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.LoadXml(@"<gods>
<god name=""Kibo"" />
<god name=""Xibo"" />
</gods>");
Console.WriteLine("Serialized XML: {0}", xmlDocument.OuterXml);
foreach (XmlNode node in xmlDocument.GetElementsByTagName("god")) {
(node as XmlElement).IsEmpty = false;
}
Console.WriteLine("Serialized XML: {0}", xmlDocument.OuterXml);
}

Output is

Serialized XML: <gods><god name="Kibo" /><god name="Xibo" /></gods>
Serialized XML: <gods><god name="Kibo"></god><god name="Xibo"></god></gods>

so that is what you are looking for I think.

[Martin Honnen]

Jason Hurder wrote:

One other question - is it possible to format the InnerXml property to
include insignificant white space?

You can set
xmlDocument.PreserveWhitespace = true;
before you call Load or LoadXml and then white space should be preserved.

--

Martin Honnen
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[puffy]

hi, I am puffy ...i saw ur post in msdn discussion on how to format a XML
document style..i am now doing my project paper in University which need me
to do something like yours in the discussion...can i have a look on your
partial source code for what you asking in the discussion?there is a post
that u say u need to preserved some white space in your xml doc...and then
you post a data like:
<SrcMeta Name="StoreNo" Value="02" />
<SrcMeta Name="SysID" Value="183161305750757" />
<SrcMeta Name="SysType" Value="ERA" />
<SrcMeta Name="BranchNo" Value="01" />
how you do it?..are u loading the data from a database?or from a source with
different database into the xmldocument write?..

ur help is vr much appreciated.....!!!

"Jason Hurder" wrote:

Martin - thank you very much, that did the trick.

One other question - is it possible to format the InnerXml property to
include insignificant white space? So instead of this:

<SrcMeta Name="StoreNo" Value="02" /><SrcMeta Name="SysID"
Value="183161305750757" /><SrcMeta Name="SysType" Value="ERA" /><SrcMeta
Name="BranchNo" Value="01" />

I end up with this?

<SrcMeta Name="StoreNo" Value="02" />
<SrcMeta Name="SysID" Value="183161305750757" />
<SrcMeta Name="SysType" Value="ERA" />
<SrcMeta Name="BranchNo" Value="01" />

This isn't necessary, just makes it a whole lot easier to read in
notepad. Thanks!

Martin Honnen wrote:

Jason Hurder wrote:

After I've constructed an XmlDocument object composed of XmlNodes, I
send the actual InnerXml contents to a server where my XML is
processed. However, elements that have no InnerText end up looking
like this:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST" MessageKeyword="REASON" />

however, I need the closing tag to be fully expanded as such:

<PartMessage MessageText="INVENTORY REQUEST"
MessageKeyword="REASON"></PartMessage>

Is there a method or property for either the XmlDocument or the
individual XmlNode objects that will format my text the way I've
described?

Yes, within .NET for XmlElement objects you can set
element.IsEmpty = false;
and then the serialization is done in the
<tag></tag>
for.
Here is a short example

XmlDocument xmlDocument = new XmlDocument();
xmlDocument.LoadXml(@"<gods>
<god name=""Kibo"" />
<god name=""Xibo"" />
</gods>");
Console.WriteLine("Serialized XML: {0}", xmlDocument.OuterXml);
foreach (XmlNode node in xmlDocument.GetElementsByTagName("god")) {
(node as XmlElement).IsEmpty = false;
}
Console.WriteLine("Serialized XML: {0}", xmlDocument.OuterXml);
}

Output is

Serialized XML: <gods><god name="Kibo" /><god name="Xibo" /></gods>
Serialized XML: <gods><god name="Kibo"></god><god name="Xibo"></god></gods>

so that is what you are looking for I think.