I am writing a string to a xml document.
I now have several different strings and I want to write all of them to one xml file. Is there any way of doing this instead of having numerous single xml files?
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Instead of writing strings out, use XDocument to construct the XML structure and Save to a file.
This will keep you from making mistakes in the format of the XML file itself, as XML is not simple text, but a structured file format.
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A Smith
Im fairly new to vb.net and i needed to get the contents of my dictionary to xml format. I thought the easiest way to do this was to use a string builder that would write the contents in a basic xml output.
Oded
@ASmith - Superficially, perhaps. But by doing so you can end up with invalid XML easily and find it difficult to find where the error is. A strongly typed way safeguards you from such errors.
KV Prajapati
@ASmith - It doesn't matter whether you are newbie or not. You must have to use DOM, XDocument or SAX parsert to write/read XML document.
Use System.IO.File.AppendAllText instead of System.IO.File.WriteAllText
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Oded
Which will result in an invalid XML file.
Use file.AppendText to add to a file.
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Oded
Which will result in an invalid XML file.
Per Kastman
@Oded, yes, but as far as I can see the question did not state that the file should be valid xml.
Oded
It is implied. If you write to a file, you expect to read from it. And if it is XML, why make it invalid for reading?
Per Kastman
Is it? I must say the question was quite specific, he wanted to write to one file for whatever reason.