XMLTextWrier to string??

[TPS]

I need to go from an XMLTextWriter to a string!


I am using the XmlTextWriter class to build an xml document. I need the
ultimate
output to go to a string, so am using the MemoryStream class as the
underlying
stream for the writer. I can't figure out how to get the contents of the
MemoryStream into a string when I am finished. I attempted to use the
StreamReader object, but that got me an empty string. All the documentation
shows how to go to a byte array, and I suppose I could go from there, but
that
seems like a roundabout way to do what I would think would be a common task.

What do I need to do, or how does everyone else approach this?

Thanks
TPS

 

[Robert Jacobson]

There's a sample of doing that with the StreamReader here, although it is
rather roundabout:

http://www.artisticode.com/Articles/45.aspx

Also, a discussion of this here:

http://shorterlink.com/?9LXRPB

 

[Mickey Williams]

I need to go from an XMLTextWriter to a string!

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(writer);
xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument(true);
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("x");
xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument();

Console.WriteLine(writer.ToString());

 

[Robert Jacobson]

Correction -- the sample uses MemoryStream.

There's a sample of doing that with the StreamReader here, although it is
rather roundabout:

http://www.artisticode.com/Articles/45.aspx

Also, a discussion of this here:

http://shorterlink.com/?9LXRPB

 

[TPS]

StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(writer);
xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument(true);
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("x");
xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument();
Console.WriteLine(writer.ToString());


Mickey, thanks for your reply....

but ..

writer.ToString() returns "XmlTextWriter object"

not the xml.

Am I missing something or are you actually able to get xml out of your
example?

Thanks again, looking forward to using this solution.

TPS

 

[Mickey Williams]

You should call ToString() on the StringWriter instance, not the
XmlTextWriter.

 

[TPS]

Hey Robert,
thanks for those links, they were very helpful.

TPS.