Question

I’m generating a large amount of XML documents from a set of values in an Excel file. The only thing that changes for each XML document is the values. I figured the best way to generate these documents was to make a “XML skeleton” (since the XML format never changes) and then plug in symbols like “&%blahNameblahTest”, so then I could just preform a Regex.Replace on each value.

I will be handing over this project to another developer and I’m wondering if I should convert the project to generate the XML file manually everytime through the System.XML namespace.

The only advantages I see to this is ensuring that the XML document is valid.

The current method would be more readable than that method, and way faster since I’m generating around 1500 documents.

Answer 1

I would stick with your existing method.

However, I would add a reference to System.Linq.XML though and do an XElement.Parse() on the output to ensure your resultant document parses correctly. (The one advantage you mentioned to the System.Xml route!)