encoding xml when you don't want it to go to a file

[Simon Kittle]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a chunk of XML where I want all the entities to be
encoded properly. However, I don't really want to use XmlTextWriter
because I don't want to XML to go into a file on disk.

Is there a simple utility method which will atke a string and an
encoding and encode it as XML properly such that it could then be
included in a CDATA section in an XML document?

Is it possible to use the XmlWriter base class and redirect output to a
string variable? Or would creating an XML DOM object in emmory be the
best way to go?

Thanks

Simon

[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Simon Kittle wrote:

I'm trying to create a chunk of XML where I want all the entities to be
encoded properly. However, I don't really want to use XmlTextWriter
because I don't want to XML to go into a file on disk.

Is there a simple utility method which will atke a string and an
encoding and encode it as XML properly such that it could then be
included in a CDATA section in an XML document?

Is it possible to use the XmlWriter base class and redirect output to a
string variable?

Sure.

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
XmlWriter w = XmlWriter.Create(sw);
....
w.Close();
string xml = sw.ToString();
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net

[Simon Kittle]

sweet,

cheers man

Oleg Tkachenko [MVP] wrote:

Simon Kittle wrote:

I'm trying to create a chunk of XML where I want all the entities to be
encoded properly. However, I don't really want to use XmlTextWriter
because I don't want to XML to go into a file on disk.

Is there a simple utility method which will atke a string and an
encoding and encode it as XML properly such that it could then be
included in a CDATA section in an XML document?

Is it possible to use the XmlWriter base class and redirect output to a
string variable?

Sure.

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
XmlWriter w = XmlWriter.Create(sw);
...
w.Close();
string xml = sw.ToString();
--
Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, MCPD]
http://blog.tkachenko.com | http://www.XmlLab.Net | http://www.XLinq.Net