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elucid8
elucid8

Reputation: 1422

How do you create standalone XML nodes in .NET?

How do you create a standalone XML node in .NET?

I have an XMLElement type that I'm trying to set a value to, but since the constructor for that class is protected, it won't let me do it.

This is what I'm currently doing:

        XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
        XmlElement foo = xmldoc.CreateElement("", "foo"); ;
        XmlElement bar = xmldoc.CreateElement("", "bar"); ;

Is there a better way to do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 735

Answers (4)

user1102001
user1102001

Reputation: 707

you can try this

 public XElement ToXml()
 {
   XElement element = new XElement("Song",
                    new XElement("", "foo"),
                    new XElement("", "bar"));

   return element;
}

Upvotes: 0

Michael Viktor Starberg
Michael Viktor Starberg

Reputation: 950

Are you on .NET 3.5 or later?

using System.Xml.Linq;


var element = new XElement("foo", "bar");
Console.WriteLine(element.ToString());

Output: 

<foo>bar</foo>

Upvotes: 0

Gustavo Guerra
Gustavo Guerra

Reputation: 5359

If you use XElement from System.Xml.Linq instead of the old XmlElement from System.Xml it allows you to do that very easily:

new XElement("foo")

Upvotes: 2

Christopher Klein
Christopher Klein

Reputation: 2793

I've done this in the past:

            System.Xml.XmlDocument doc = new System.Xml.XmlDocument();

            XmlElement fundsElement = doc.CreateElement("funds");
            doc.AppendChild(fundsElement);

Upvotes: 0

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