An earlier DevX tip, “Create a New XML File Using XmlDocument,” showed how to create a new XmlDocument, populate it, and save the results to a file. This tip uses the same XML example, but builds the document with a StringBuilder instead, which is simpler than working directly with the System.Xml.XmlDocument class.
Suppose you want to build this XML:
XML This is a list of my XML articles. true The following method shows how to build the preceding document with a StringBuilder. The following code gets a StringBuilder containing the minimal XML, appends strings containing the elements, loads an XmlDocument instance from the StringBuilder contents, and returns the populated XmlDocument object:
public XmlDocument BuildXmlDocument(){ StringBuilder Document = CreateBaseStringBuilder(); // create a generic XML string //declare the root. Document.AppendLine(""); // declare child node. Document.AppendLine(""); //We could tab indention // add child node's child node Document.AppendLine("XML "); // add another child node Document.AppendLine("This is a list of my XML articles. "); // and another Document.AppendLine("true "); // close the Category node. Document.AppendLine(" "); // close the root node Document.AppendLine(" "); // now read the contents into an XmlDocument try { // Create the new Instance. XmlDocument XMLDocument = new XmlDocument(); // Add the content XMLDocument.LoadXml(Document.ToString()); // return it. return (XMLDocument); } catch(Exception ex) { // in case of failure return null return (null); }}// This function creates a new instance of System.Text.StringBuilder, // adds a Basic XmlDocumentDeclaration, // and returns the new StringBuilder.private StringBuilder CreateBaseStringBuilder(){ StringBuilder BaseDocument = new StringBuilder(); BaseDocument.AppendLine(""); return (BaseDocument);}Note that you’d need to call the returned XmlDocument’s Save method from the calling function.
