xmlTextWriter

[Gilgamesh]

Hello,
How do I use this class to create an XML document without saving it into a
file? I need to store the XML documen into a string so it could be passed as
a parameter to another class.
Gilgamesh

[Zafar Abbas]

Create an XmlTextWriter through the constructor which takes in a TextWriter.
You could create a StringWriter instance of the abstract TextWriter class
and store the content written by the XmlTextWriter is that string without
ever persisting it into a file.

Thanks,
Zafar

"Gilgamesh" <gi************@aol.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
How do I use this class to create an XML document without saving it into a
file? I need to store the XML documen into a string so it could be passed as a parameter to another class.
Gilgamesh

[Gilgamesh]

Thanks, Zafar. I got the XML document written into StringWriter. However, my
ultimate goal is to store XML document in a text field in SQL database. I
tried the StringMethod method called Write, but this method inserts \r\n at
the end of each element. Is there any way to get the XML document without
line return characters?
Thanks,
-G
"Zafar Abbas" <so*****@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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Create an XmlTextWriter through the constructor which takes in a
TextWriter.
You could create a StringWriter instance of the abstract TextWriter class
and store the content written by the XmlTextWriter is that string without
ever persisting it into a file.

Thanks,
Zafar

"Gilgamesh" <gi************@aol.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
How do I use this class to create an XML document without saving it into
a
file? I need to store the XML documen into a string so it could be passed

as

a parameter to another class.
Gilgamesh

[Gilgamesh]

Just a correction that the method I used was ToString not Write.
-G
"Zafar Abbas" <so*****@somewhere.com> wrote in message
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Create an XmlTextWriter through the constructor which takes in a
TextWriter.
You could create a StringWriter instance of the abstract TextWriter class
and store the content written by the XmlTextWriter is that string without
ever persisting it into a file.

Thanks,
Zafar

"Gilgamesh" <gi************@aol.com> wrote in message
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Hello,
How do I use this class to create an XML document without saving it into
a
file? I need to store the XML documen into a string so it could be passed

as

a parameter to another class.
Gilgamesh

[Martin Honnen]

Gilgamesh wrote:

I got the XML document written into StringWriter. However, my
ultimate goal is to store XML document in a text field in SQL database. I
tried the StringMethod method called Write, but this method inserts \r\n at
the end of each element. Is there any way to get the XML document without
line return characters?

That depends solely on the Formatting settings of the XmlTextWriter e.g.
you can do

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.None;
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("gods");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Kibo");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Xibo");
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.Flush();
Console.WriteLine("XML is:\r\n{0}", stringWriter.ToString());

and the result is alike

XML is:
<gods><god>Kibo</god><god>Xibo</god></gods>
or you can set the writer to indent e.g.

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("gods");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Kibo");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Xibo");
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.Flush();
Console.WriteLine("XML is:\r\n{0}", stringWriter.ToString());

and the output is alike

XML is:
<gods>
<god>Kibo</god>
<god>Xibo</god>
</gods>
--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

[Gilgamesh]

Thanks, Martin. I appreciate your help.
BTW, how can I change the encoding to utf-8?
-G
"Martin Honnen" <ma*******@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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Gilgamesh wrote:

I got the XML document written into StringWriter. However, my ultimate
goal is to store XML document in a text field in SQL database. I tried
the StringMethod method called Write, but this method inserts \r\n at the
end of each element. Is there any way to get the XML document without
line return characters?

That depends solely on the Formatting settings of the XmlTextWriter e.g.
you can do

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.None;
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("gods");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Kibo");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Xibo");
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.Flush();
Console.WriteLine("XML is:\r\n{0}", stringWriter.ToString());

and the result is alike

XML is:
<gods><god>Kibo</god><god>Xibo</god></gods>
or you can set the writer to indent e.g.

StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("gods");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Kibo");
xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Xibo");
xmlWriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlWriter.Flush();
Console.WriteLine("XML is:\r\n{0}", stringWriter.ToString());

and the output is alike

XML is:
<gods>
<god>Kibo</god>
<god>Xibo</god>
</gods>
--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/