Question

Currently, I have a program that reads a file and uses an XMLTextWriter to write an XML file to disk. Shortly afterward, I read the file and parse it.

I am trying to put these two programs together. I want to get rid of the writing to file step. The XMLTextWriter needs a file path or a Stream when it is constructed. Is there a way to make a Stream that will create a string with the output instead of writing it to a file?

Thanks

Answer 1

The XmlTextWriter also has a constructor that can take a TextWriter, so you can simply use a StringWriter:

string xml;
using (StringWriter str = new StringWriter()) {
  using (XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(str)) {
    // write the XML
  }
  xml = str.ToString();
}