hello,

what is the best way to convert an XmlDocument object to a string of
its XML content?

it appears there are a few ways, and im curious what the best one
would be.


thanks,
sm

On Nov 28, 3:24 pm, SpaceMarine <spacemar... (AT) mailinator (DOT) com> wrote:
i found this way, which uses XmlDocument.WriteTo(XmlWriter):

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter(sw);

xmlDoc.WriteTo(xtw);
string temp = sw.ToString();

....seems pretty minimal.


sm

SpaceMarine wrote:

You would need to define criteria on what you regard as a good way and
what as a bad way. The shortest in terms of code is certainly
xmlDocumentInstance.OuterXml


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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

On Nov 29, 6:51 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr... (AT) yahoo (DOT) de> wrote:

i was under the impression that doesnt preserve the original text
entirely -- something about the encoding character-set...ring any
bells?

what are other pros & cons that come to mind? my desire is to preserve
any possible character in its original form.


thanks,
sm

SpaceMarine wrote:
I am not sure I understand. A string in the .NET framework is a sequence
of Unicode characters while the original document might be a file on the
disk which is a sequence of bytes. So a string being a sequence of
characters is always different from a file being a sequence of bytes.


--

Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
http://JavaScript.FAQTs.com/

On Nov 30, 10:54 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr... (AT) yahoo (DOT) de> wrote:
im not sure either, just what i read.

you mentioned other possible "best" ways for doing this, based on
criteria. what sort of options/criteria were you referring to?


thanks,
sm

On Nov 30, 10:54 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr... (AT) yahoo (DOT) de> wrote:
found the thing i read:

http://www.dotnetmonster.com/Uwe/For...nt-and-Session

....a fellow has an XML doc that references UTF-8 encoding. the replier
says:

"Outer XML will give you the XML in UTF-16, in your case it will
strip the encoding attribute. This is because characters in .Net are
16-bit Unicode values."

....my desire is to preserve the original XmlDocument's content w/o
stripping any attributes (even encoding), since i dont know what XML
this code will come across in the future. so i thought that .OuterXml
may not be the best choice. what do you think?


sm

On Nov 30, 10:54 am, Martin Honnen <mahotr... (AT) yahoo (DOT) de> wrote:
martin, not sure if can still see the entire thread, but its here:

http://groups.google.com/group/micro...3b4785a42db699

....was curious on your thoughts regarding my last post (on
why .OuterXml may not be ideal).


thanks,
sm