Question

I’m writing a Windows service in C#. I’ve got an XmlWriter which is contains the output of an XSLT transformation. I need to get the XML into an XMLElement object to pass to a web service.

What is the best way to do this?

Answer 1

You do not need an intermediate string, you can create an XmlWriter that writes directly into an XmlNode:

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); using (XmlWriter xw = doc.CreateNavigator().AppendChild()) {   // Write to `xw` here.   // Nodes written to `xw` will not appear in the document    // until `xw` is closed/disposed. } 

and pass xw as the output of the transform.

NB. Some parts of the xsl:output will be ignored (e.g. encoding) because the XmlDocument will use its own settings.