Question

HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
HttpContext.Current.Response.ContentEncoding = Encoding.UTF8;

HttpPostedFile file = HttpContext.Current.Request.Files[0];

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(XmlReader.Create(file.InputStream));

var wr = new StringWriter();
doc.Save(wr);
HttpContext.Current.Response.Write(serializer.Serialize(wr.GetStringBuilder().ToString()));

This is resulting in a corrupt xml file. The string looks like this:

"\u003c?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-16\"?\u003e\r\n\u003cAuditSheet\u003e\r\n  \u003cPLANT_SITE_CUSTOMER_NAME\u003eZINIFEX HOBART SMELTER\u003c/PLANT_SITE_CUSTOMER_NAME\u003e\r\n 

Did i miss something obvious here? Do i need to remove the \r\n manually? Thanks

Answer 1

You shouldn’t be serializing the string.

Instead, you should write directly to the HTTP response by calling doc.Save(response.Output).