Magnus wrote:

> can anyone help me on how to create and manipulate a xmttextwriter without
> having to craete a physical file.
>
> I have an application that should return data in xml. But I do not want to
> create a file and then delete it.

"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> wrote in message
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>
> Magnus wrote:
>
>> can anyone help me on how to create and manipulate a xmttextwriter
>> without having to craete a physical file.
>>
>> I have an application that should return data in xml. But I do not want
>> to create a file and then delete it.
>
> Where does the application need to return the data to? If it needs to
> return the data to a stream or network connection you can open an
> XmlTextWriter on a stream.
> You can also open an XmlTextWriter on a MemoryStream and create the XML in
> memory.
> Or you can ceate an XmlTextWriter on a StringWriter and simply read out
> the string at the end as in the following example:
>
> StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
> XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);
> xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument();
> xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("gods");
> xmlWriter.WriteElementString("god", "Kibo");
> xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument();
> xmlWriter.Close();
> Console.WriteLine(stringWriter.ToString());
>
> which writes
>
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><gods><god>Kibo</god></gods>
>
> to the console.
>
> --
>
> Martin Honnen
> http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

Magnus wrote:

> One other thing: How can I change the encoding to UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1
> on StringWriter the encoding property is readonly, and on XmlTextWriter I
> can not set the encoding type.