How to remove whitespace from an XmlDocument

Question

I have an XML document from which I want to remove white spaces and carriage returns. How can I get the modified XML using C#.

Answer 1

To remove white spaces between the tags:

# Regex regex = new Regex(@">\s*<");  
# string cleanedXml = regex.Replace(dirtyXml, "><");

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Answer 2

Set the preserveWhitespace flag to false:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.PreserveWhitespace = false;
doc.Load("foo.xml");
// doc.InnerXml contains no spaces or returns