Question

I’m having an XML which will look like following

<root>
    <node>
        <a1>text</a1>
        <a2>text</a2>
        <a3></a3>
    </node>
</root>

If i loaded this in a xmldocument and saved it. The xml becomes following

<root>
    <node>
        <a1>text</a1>
        <a2>text</a2>
        <a3>
        </a3>
    </node>
</root>

My code snippet:

 public static Void Update(String Path)
        {
            FileStream docIn = new FileStream(Path, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.ReadWrite);
            XmlDocument xml = new XmlDocument();
            xml.Load(Path);
            XmlNodeList nodeY = xml.SelectNodes("/root/node/a1");
            _count = 0;
            foreach (XmlNode live in nodeY)
            {
              //changing nodeY InnerText
            }

            xml.Save(Path);

        }

I do not wish to use the preservewhitespace= true option since it makes my xml looks like this

<root><node><a1>text</a1><a2>text</a2><a3></a3></node></root>

Thanks in advance!!!

Answer 1

Try to specify XmlWriter settings explicitly using an instance XmlWriterSettings class.

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings
    {
        Encoding = Encoding.UTF8,
        Indent = true,
        NewLineChars = Environment.NewLine,
        NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Replace,
        OmitXmlDeclaration = false
    };

using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(outXmlPath, settings))
{
    xml.Save(writer);
}

Hope this helps.