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LINQ to XML : Creating complete XML document

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LINQ to XML API allows us to create complete XML document as expected with all the elements. So this X-DOM has everything as you expect.

 

Simple sample looks like,

 

 

XDocument doc = new XDocument(

    new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-16", "true"),

    new XProcessingInstruction("test", "value"),

    new XComment("This is comment by you"),

    new XElement("Employees",

        new XElement("Employee",

            new XAttribute("id", "EMP001"),

            new XElement("name", "Wriju"),

            new XCData("~~~~~~~XML CDATA~~~~~~~~"))));

 

By calling Save method of XDocument (actually of XContainer) you can save it to a physical file. And the file will look like,

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" ?>

<?test value?>

  <!-- This is comment by you -->

<Employees>

  <Employee id="EMP001">

    <name>Wriju</name>

    <![CDATA[ ~~~~~~~XML CDATA~~~~~~~~]]>

  </Employee>

</Employees>

 

To me this looks like more aligned to the human thinking mechanism.

 

Namoskar!!!

Comments

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    PingBack from http://www.biosensorab.org/2008/02/28/linq-to-xml-creating-complete-xml-document/

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    LINQ to XML API allows us to create complete XML document as expected with all the elements. So this

  • Anonymous
    February 28, 2008
    The new C# LINQ to XML syntax is nice, but the VB syntax is IMHO even more readable:        Dim xmlDoc As XDocument = _           <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>           <!-- This is comment by you -->           <Employees>               <Employee id="EMP001">                   <name>Wriju</name>                   <![CDATA[ ~~~~~~~...~~~~~~~~]]>               </Employee>           </Employees>

  • Anonymous
    March 24, 2008
    @Andre, Yes VB rocks

  • Anonymous
    August 06, 2008
    Perhaps I am missing the answer to the obvious question here. Why would you hardcode your XML document within your code instead of storing it in a file. The latter option allows you to tweak/update your XML template without having to recompile code. That it looks intuitive seems to be of secondary importance?

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2008
    Abraham, You might need to create it dynamically based on criteria unknown until runtime (user input, database values, etc...).

  • Anonymous
    December 01, 2008
    Hi, its possible insert cdata tag within xattribute ? thanks

  • Anonymous
    February 10, 2009
    Yes, It's called Visual Basic for a reason.

  • Anonymous
    May 16, 2010
    In this case Employees would likely be a list of employees...in vb you would simply do a for each directly in the embeded xml to enumerate all of the employees Dim xmlDoc As XDocument = _          <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>          <!-- This is comment by you -->          <Employees>             <%= From e In [your employees] Select _              <Employee id=<%[value]%>>                  <name><%[value]%></name>                  <![CDATA[ ~~~~~~~...~~~~~~~~]]>              </Employee> _             %>          </Employees> how would this be done in C#?