Question

I have a string in a ASP.NET MVC details page with the value of

<this><is sample = "attribute"><xml><power>!!!</power></xml><oh><yeah></yeah></oh></is></this>.

I want it to display as follows:

<this>
  <is sample = "attribute">
    <xml>
       <power> !!! </power>
    </xml>
    <oh>
       <yeah>
       </yeah>
    <oh>
  </is>
</this>

Things I have tried:

1: How to Display Formatted XML – best answer and richards answer

2: xmlwriter.writeraw();

3: basic linq-to-xml (i’m not very good with this)

EDIT: I am displaying the string as follows and was wondering if this may have something to do with it:

<%: *formatted string goes here* %>

Answer 1

I was doing it in this way:

protected string FormatXml(XmlNode xmlNode)
{        
    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();

    // We will use stringWriter to push the formated xml into our StringBuilder bob.
    using (StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter(builder))
    {
        // We will use the Formatting of our xmlTextWriter to provide our indentation.
        using (XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter))
        {
            xmlTextWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
            xmlNode.WriteTo(xmlTextWriter);
        }
    }

    return builder.ToString();
}

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