XMLTextWrier to string??

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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
 
TPS said:
I need to go from an XMLTextWriter to a string!
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StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(writer);
xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument(true);
xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("x");
xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument();

Console.WriteLine(writer.ToString());
 
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
 
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