XMLDocument.Save adds return carriages to XML when elements are blank

Question

I\'m loading a XML Document that has some tags that have no innertext.

If I populate the innertext with some data then it works as needed (you get opening tag, inner

Answer 1

Probably too late, but I referred to the solution given by Arvo Bowen. Arvo's solution is in C#, I wrote the same in Powershell Syntax

# $dest_file is the path to the destination file
$xml_dest = [XML] (Get-Content $dest_file)

#
#   Operations done on $xml_dest
#

$settings = new-object System.Xml.XmlWriterSettings
$settings.CloseOutput = $true
$settings.Indent = $true
$writer = [System.Xml.XmlWriter]::Create($dest_file, $settings)

$xml_dest.Save($writer)
$writer.Close()

It solved my two problems:

• One, problem stated above i.e. newline character being added to null/empty values.
• Second, no end tag being created for null/empty values. ex: $null would actually be written in file as Refer this thread: Can we force XmlWriter to issue rather than ?