In C#, is there a way to add an XML node to a file on disk WITHOUT loading it first?

Question

I have a very basic XML structure/file on disk which is something like:

    kdkdkdk         


        

Answer 1

System.IO.FileInfo[] aryFi = di.GetFiles("*.xml");


foreach (System.IO.FileInfo fi in aryFi) {

 System.Xml.XmlDocument xmlDocument = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
 xmlDocument.Load(fi.FullName);

 XmlNode refelem = xmlDocument.LastChild;
 XmlNode newElem = xmlDocument.CreateNode("element", "something", "");
 newElem.InnerText = "sometext";
 xmlDocument.InsertAfter(newElem, refelem);
}

I believe opening and inserting a node would be best option. Either way you would need to use IO, why not do it proper way?

For single file

System.Xml.XmlDocument xmlDocument = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();
 xmlDocument.Load("file path");

 XmlNode refelem = xmlDocument.LastChild;
 XmlNode newElem = xmlDocument.CreateNode("element", "something", "");
 newElem.InnerText = "sometext";
 xmlDocument.InsertAfter(newElem, refelem);