String representation of XML from System.Xml.XmlTextWriter

[mrdanny2007]

Is there anyway to get the XML string representation from the
XmlTextWriter object?
I created a function to create an XML using this object, but I need to
send back an XML as the return value of this function. But I am not
sure how to do this.

Sub getXML()

Dim objXMLWriter As New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(w,
Text.Encoding.UTF8)
objXMLWriter.WriteStartDocument()
objXMLWriter.WriteStartElement("firstElement")
objXMLWriter.WriteStartElement("SecondElement")
objXMLWriter.WriteElementString("ThirdELement", "Just text")
objXMLWriter.WriteElementString("ThirdELementL1", "Text
again")
objXMLWriter.WriteEndElement()
objXMLWriter.WriteStartElement("sdsd")
objXMLWriter.WriteAttributeString("timeVisited",
DateTime.Now.ToString())
objXMLWriter.WriteElementString("ip", "14.23.422.12")
objXMLWriter.WriteEndElement()
objXMLWriter.WriteEndElement()
objXMLWriter.WriteEndDocument()
objXMLWriter.Close()

End Sub

Is there anyway to get a string representation from the XmlTextWriter
class???

[Martin Honnen]

mr*********@gmail.com wrote:

Is there anyway to get the XML string representation from the
XmlTextWriter object?
I created a function to create an XML using this object, but I need to
send back an XML as the return value of this function. But I am not
sure how to do this.

Sub getXML()

Dim objXMLWriter As New System.Xml.XmlTextWriter(w,
Text.Encoding.UTF8)

First of all, with .NET 2.0 you should usually not use New XmlTextWriter
but rather use the factory method XmlWriter.Create:
<http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/System.Xml.XmlWriter.Create.aspx>

If you want to create a string then you can use an XmlWriter over a
StringWriter e.g.
Dim writer As StringWriter = New StringWriter()
Using xml_writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(writer)
and call
writer.ToString()
at the end to get a string with the XML markup.

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