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Line Breaks in XML Files

How do I get a line break or carriage retunr in the actual XML file so it does not go across one line. I have tried the XMLWriterSettings but it does not appear to work. The code is as below:

ublic partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page
{
protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{

// location to the XML file to write
String strFilePath = "c:\\Projects\\company\\App_Data\\movies.xml";

// create an instance of the XmlTextWriter object
XmlTextWriter objWriter = new XmlTextWriter(strFilePath, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
settings.NewLineOnAttributes = true;

objWriter.WriteStartElement("order");
objWriter.WriteAttributeString("orderID", "367A54");
objWriter.WriteAttributeString("date", "2001-05-03");
objWriter.WriteElementString("price", "19.95");
objWriter.WriteEndElement();

objWriter.Flush();

// clear up memory
objWriter.Close();

// successfully done
result.Text = "XML file ";

}
}

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Ashley Bryant

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Dmitry G

I think the problem is that you haven't set your xmlWriterSettings...

You need to create settings before creating a writer and pass this settings object to a writer constructor,

something like

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
settings.NewLineOnAttributes = true;

XmlTextWriter writer = XmlTextWriter.Create("books.xml", settings);

MangoMarcus

ASKER

Cheers Ashley, worked a treat!

(Thanks Anarki - its seems to throw an error when you swap (strFilePath, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8) for (strFilePath, System.settings) - obviously something im doing wrong!)

MangoMarcus

ASKER

Sorry Anarki, I meant (strFilePath, settings)