How to create a XmlDocument using XmlWriter in .NET?

问题

Many .NET functions use XmlWriter to output/generate xml. Outputting to a file/string/memory is a very operation:

XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(PutYourStreamFileWriterEtcHere);
xw.WriteStartElement("root");
...

Sometimes , you need to manipulate the resulting Xml and would therefore like to load it into a XmlDocument or might need an XmlDocument for some other reason but you must generate the XML using an XmlWriter. For example, if you call a function in a 3rd party library that outputs to a XmlWriter only.

One of the things you can do is write the xml to a string and then load it into your XmlDocument:

StringWriter S = new StringWriter();
XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(S);
/* write away */
XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
xdoc.LoadXml(S.ToString());

However this is inefficient - first you serialize all the xml info into a string, then you parse the string again to create the DOM.

How can you point an XmlWriter to build a XmlDocument directly?

回答1:

Here's at least one solution:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); 
using (XmlWriter writer = doc.CreateNavigator().AppendChild()) 
{ 
    // Do this directly 
     writer.WriteStartDocument(); 
     writer.WriteStartElement("root"); 
     writer.WriteElementString("foo", "bar"); 
     writer.WriteEndElement(); 
     writer.WriteEndDocument();
    // or anything else you want to with writer, like calling functions etc.
}

Apparently XpathNavigator gives you a XmlWriter when you call AppendChild()

Credits go to Martin Honnen on : http://groups.google.com/group/microsoft.public.dotnet.xml/browse_thread/thread/24e4c8d249ad8299?pli=1

回答2:

You could do the opposite : build the XmlDocument first using DOM, then write it to a XmlWriter :

XmlDocument xdoc = new XmlDocument();
... // build the document

StringWriter S = new StringWriter();
XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(S);
xdoc.WriteTo(xw);

回答3:

You can write xml file using XMLWriter class. Here is example for this.

    XmlWriterSettings objSetting = new XmlWriterSettings();
    objSetting.Indent = true;
    objSetting.NewLineOnAttributes = true;

    System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();


    using (XmlWriter objWriter = XmlWriter.Create(sb, objSetting))
    {
        //Note the artificial, but useful, indenting
        objWriter.WriteStartDocument();

        objWriter.WriteStartElement("books");

        ////////Start Book Element///////

        objWriter.WriteStartElement("book");

        objWriter.WriteStartAttribute("ISBN");
        objWriter.WriteValue("asp1");
        objWriter.WriteEndAttribute();

        objWriter.WriteStartElement("Title");
        objWriter.WriteValue("ASP.NET");
        objWriter.WriteEndElement();

        objWriter.WriteElementString("ReleaseDate", "11/11/2010");

        objWriter.WriteStartElement("Pages");
        objWriter.WriteValue(200);
        objWriter.WriteEndElement(); //price

        objWriter.WriteEndElement(); //book
        ////////End Book Element///////


        ////////Another Element

        ////////Start Book Element///////

        objWriter.WriteStartElement("book");

        objWriter.WriteStartAttribute("ISBN");
        objWriter.WriteValue("c#2");
        objWriter.WriteEndAttribute();

        objWriter.WriteStartElement("Title");
        objWriter.WriteValue("C#.NET");
        objWriter.WriteEndElement();

        objWriter.WriteElementString("ReleaseDate", "10/11/2010");

        objWriter.WriteStartElement("Pages");
        objWriter.WriteValue(500);
        objWriter.WriteEndElement(); 

        objWriter.WriteEndElement(); //book
        ////////End Book Element///////



        objWriter.WriteEndElement(); //books
        objWriter.WriteEndDocument();

    }

    File.WriteAllText(Server.MapPath("BooksList.xml"), sb.ToString());

回答4:

The idea behind XmlWriter is to wait until you have finished modifying your data before you start writing.

XmlWriter wasn't built with your situation in mind.

Either

Wait until you know what your data is going to be before writing

Do what you're currently doing

回答5:

There is an underlying Stream object that the XmlWriter was writing to, if it was bidirectional (MemoryStream), you could simply re-position it back to -0- and then use the Stream object in the XmlDocument.Load(stream).

HTH,

来源：https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1346995/how-to-create-a-xmldocument-using-xmlwriter-in-net

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