xmlwriter write elements in one line
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Solution 1
You have create an instance of XmlWriterSettings.
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
settings.IndentChars = "\t";
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(savefilepath, settings);
Solution 2
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(savefilepath, settings))
{
WriteXMLFile(writer);
}
Solution 3
You should use an XmlWriterSettings - set your appropriate formatting options and pass it when creating the XmlWriter.
Read more about it here: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/kbef2xz3.aspx
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kartal
Updated on June 19, 2022Comments
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kartal almost 2 years
I tried to save some elements from my application in xml file but when I started to develop it using this code :
public static void WriteInFile(string savefilepath) { XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(savefilepath); WriteXMLFile(writer); } private static void WriteXMLFile(XmlWriter writer) //Write and Create XML profile for specific type { writer.WriteStartDocument(); writer.WriteStartElement("cmap"); writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "dcterms",null, "http://purl.org/dc/terms/"); writer.WriteElementString("xmlns", "http://cmap.ihmc.us/xml/cmap/"); // writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns","dc",null, "http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"); //writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "vcard", null, "http://www.w3.org/2001/vcard-rdf/3.0#"); writer.WriteEndElement(); writer.WriteEndDocument(); writer.Close(); }
I found that the output in notepad are in one line like this :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><cmap xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><xmlns>http://cmap.ihmc.us/xml/cmap/</xmlns></cmap>
I want it appear as multiline like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <cmap xmlns:dcterms="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"><xmlns>http://cmap.ihmc.us/xml/cmap/</xmlns> </cmap>
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Kobunite about 11 yearsIt's worth mentioning, for any future readers with this issue, that writing a whitespace will stop the new line/indent from working. MSDN for XmlWriterSettings.Indent - "The elements are indented as long as the element does not contain mixed content. Once the WriteString or WriteWhitespace method is called to write out a mixed element content, the XmlWriter stops indenting. The indenting resumes once the mixed content element is closed."