Explicit Element Closing Tags with System.Xml.Linq Namespace

Question

I am using the (.NET 3.5 SP1) System.Xml.Linq namespace to populate an html template document with div tags of data (and then save it to disk). Sometimes the div tags are e

Answer 1

I'm not sure why you'd end up with an empty DIV (seems a bit pointless!) But:

divTag.SetValue(string.Empty);

Should do it.

Answer 2

I don't know the answer to your question using LINQ. But there is a project called HTML Agility Pack on codeplex that allows you to create and manipulate HTML documents much similar to the way we can manipulate XML document using System.Xml namespace classes.

Answer 3

I did this. Working as expected.

myXml = new XElement("script", new XAttribute("src", "value"));
myXml .Value = "";

Which gives below as result.

<script src = "value"></script>

Answer 4

With XElement divTag = new XElement("div", String.Empty); you get the explicit closing tag