XML Aesthetics

[Neil B]

Hi folks,

If I have a .NET XmlDocument object into which I've imported a full node
from another document, I'm running into a formatting issue. The problem
arises when the imported node is nested at a different level in its
source document than its destination document (among other things) which
causes the indenting/whitespace characteristics of the resulting
document to be 'off'.

Not the most show-stopping problem in the world I know, but I was
surprised to find that there wasn't a member of XmlDocument that
're-normalised' the content into correct nested indents.

Have I missed something or am I really going to have bodge whitespace
and carriage-returns into the document to get it to look pretty?

Many thanks in advance.

Regards,

Neil B

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Neil B wrote:

If I have a .NET XmlDocument object into which I've imported a full node
from another document, I'm running into a formatting issue. The problem
arises when the imported node is nested at a different level in its
source document than its destination document (among other things) which
causes the indenting/whitespace characteristics of the resulting
document to be 'off'.

Not the most show-stopping problem in the world I know, but I was
surprised to find that there wasn't a member of XmlDocument that
're-normalised' the content into correct nested indents.

Have I missed something or am I really going to have bodge whitespace
and carriage-returns into the document to get it to look pretty?

I'm not aware of any in-memory re-indenting XmlDocument facilities, but
you certancly can reindent document when serializing it:

XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(...);
w.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
doc.Save(w);
w.Close();

--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCP]
http://blog.tkachenko.com

[Neil B]

Oleg Tkachenko [MVP] wrote:

Neil B wrote:

If I have a .NET XmlDocument object into which I've imported a full
node from another document, I'm running into a formatting issue. The
problem arises when the imported node is nested at a different level
in its source document than its destination document (among other
things) which causes the indenting/whitespace characteristics of the
resulting document to be 'off'.

Not the most show-stopping problem in the world I know, but I was
surprised to find that there wasn't a member of XmlDocument that
're-normalised' the content into correct nested indents.

Have I missed something or am I really going to have bodge whitespace
and carriage-returns into the document to get it to look pretty?

I'm not aware of any in-memory re-indenting XmlDocument facilities, but
you certancly can reindent document when serializing it:

XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(...);
w.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
doc.Save(w);
w.Close();

Oleg,

Indeed, it is that simple. Many thanks.

Neil B