Write XML with String

Question

How to to write .xml file with this string?

string:

string string1 = textbox1.text;
string string2 = textbox2.text;
string string3 = textbox3.text;
string string4 = textbox4.text;

the xml file result:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
        <books>
            <book Title="Pure JavaScript" Price=string1/>
            <book Title="Effective C++" Price=string2/>
            <book Title="Assembly Language: Step-By-Step" Price=string3/>
            <book Title="Oracle PL/SQL Best Practices" Price=string4/>
        </books>

You have 8 different strings in your code sample and because of the default naming we have no idea what each means. It is difficult to see how these are supposed to match up with your XML. — Oded
– Oded, Commented Dec 12, 2011 at 19:08
The XML is also not valid, as the Price attributes do not have quotes around the values. — Oded
– Oded, Commented Dec 12, 2011 at 19:14

BrokenGlass · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-12 19:14:13Z

3

You can use Linq to XML for this. Suppose you have a class Book:

class Book
{
    public string Title { get; set; }
    public decimal Price { get; set; }
}

And now you have a list of books that you want to put into an XML document:

List<Book> books = new List<Book>();
books.Add(new Book() { Title = "Pure JavaScript", Price = 59.0M});

XDocument xdoc = new XDocument(new XElement("books", books.Select( x=> new XElement("book", 
                               new XAttribute("Title", x.Title), 
                               new XAttribute("Price", x.Price)))));

Now you can just save this XDocument:

xdoc.Save("text.xml");

This produces:

<books>
  <book Title="Pure JavaScript" Price="59.0" />
</books>

answered Dec 12, 2011 at 19:14

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jolly Over a year ago

sorry, but for create a two <book Title="Pure JavaScript" Price="59.0" /> ?

BrokenGlass Over a year ago

Just add another book to the collection: books.Add(new Book() { Title = "Some other book name", Price = 11.99M});

Sam Axe · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-12 19:07:09Z

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Check out the System.Xml namespace. Particularly XmlDocument and XmlNode

Also XML Literals (I know VB has them, not sure about C#)

answered Dec 12, 2011 at 19:07

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Oded Over a year ago

C# doesn't have XML Literals.

Kirill Polishchuk · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-12 19:10:26Z

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Look at these keywords:

XmlWriter
XDocument
XmlDocument
Serialization

I think, in your situation XmlWriter is the best choice.

answered Dec 12, 2011 at 19:10

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John Saunders Over a year ago

-1 for recommending XmlTextWriter, which should no longer be used directly.

Kirill Polishchuk Over a year ago

@JohnSaunders, ok, XmlWriter. And where did I recommend to use it directly?

John Saunders Over a year ago

You mentioned it. Why mention it in a list of things to use?

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