dotnet xml: I am sure this a newbie-type question.

But I was looking to see if someone had something that walks an xml tree and
creates a nicely tabbed (pretty print) string version of the xml tree
(probably starting from a node, like innerxml). But innerxml sometimes (when
preservewhitespace is off) return a single very very long line.

Is there a quickie XSLT for this? or something else (I seem to remember and
output directive) but I want this from
C#.

Hi Yechezkal,

The simplest way to return a nicely tabbed string, I think is to write a
recursive loop to format it. I've written a short example to achieve this.
When calling, you can use string str = print(xmldocument.DocumentElement,
0);

private string print(XmlNode n, int layer)
{
string s = string.Empty;
for(int i=0; i<layer; i++)
s += "\t";
if(n.Value != null)
s += n.Value + System.Environment.NewLine;
foreach(XmlNode sub in n.ChildNodes)
s += print(sub, layer+1);
return s;
}

HTH. If anything is unclear, please feel free to reply to the post.

Kevin Yu
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| I am sure this a newbie-type question.
|
| But I was looking to see if someone had something that walks an xml tree
and
| creates a nicely tabbed (pretty print) string version of the xml tree
| (probably starting from a node, like innerxml). But innerxml sometimes
(when
| preservewhitespace is off) return a single very very long line.
|
| Is there a quickie XSLT for this? or something else (I seem to remember
and
| output directive) but I want this from
| C#.
|
|
|

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Use XmlTextWriter with Formatting property set to Formatting.Indented.
--
Oleg Tkachenko
XML Insider
http://www.tkachenko.com/blog

Have you tried, Formatting Property on XmlTextWriter? You can say

writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented.

-Amol

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