How to write string to XML file?

[isarta]

Hello Everybody,

This last days your site helped me a lot and I feel a litle bit shamed, that asking you all the time, but I'm the beginning programmer and for me your help is really very important.

So, I have another problem. I used web reference from weather site and get information like that: (for instance Tallinn, Estonia the place)

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<CurrentWeather>
<Location>Tallinn, Estonia (EETN) 59-24N 024-49E 34M</Location>
<Time>May 22, 2007 - 03:50 AM EDT / 2007.05.22 0750 UTC</Time>
<Wind> from the SW (230 degrees) at 3 MPH (3 KT):0</Wind>
<Visibility> greater than 7 mile(s):0</Visibility>
<SkyConditions> overcast</SkyConditions>
<Temperature> 59 F (15 C)</Temperature>
<DewPoint> 50 F (10 C)</DewPoint>
<RelativeHumidity> 72%</RelativeHumidity>
<Pressure> 29.94 in. Hg (1014 hPa)</Pressure>
<Status>Success</Status>
</CurrentWeather>

And it goes like string. How can I save this information to xml file like xml.

Thank you,
Artashes.

 

[isarta]

More information:

The problem is, that I can convert string to xml, because my string is already looks like xml, so it will be like xml in xml. I was trying just to save it "as it is" to file with format .xml, but there some problems with encoding...

 

[jmeckley]

it may be that proper xml wants the inner text wrapped with a Cdata[] element especially for these symbols , : ( ).

Jason Meckley
Programmer
Specialty Bakers, Inc.

 

[JurkMonkey]

Create a StreamWriter or FileStream (System.IO) and write the string to a file. If you write the string as raw data and then reload it in an XmlDocument (System.Xml) then it should show up as XML.

 

[Aptitude]

Your XML says it is UTF-16 the default for saving to a stream is UTF-8 (I believe). You may want to change the first line, before saving, to:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

or better still leave out the encoding as it isn't required for UTF-8 or UTF-16 anyway.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

Or you can change the code that saves the file to save using UTF-16 like this:

using System.IO;

// ...

        private void SaveFile(string xmlString)
        {
            using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter("C:\\file.xml", false, Encoding.Unicode))
            {
                sw.Write(xmlString);
            }
        }