LINQ to XML : Creating complete XML document

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LINQ to XML API allows us to create complete XML document as expected with all the elements. So this X-DOM has everything as you expect.

 

Simple sample looks like,

 

 

XDocument doc = new XDocument(

    new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-16", "true"),

    new XProcessingInstruction("test", "value"),

    new XComment("This is comment by you"),

    new XElement("Employees",

        new XElement("Employee",

            new XAttribute("id", "EMP001"),

            new XElement("name", "Wriju"),

            new XCData("~~~~~~~XML CDATA~~~~~~~~"))));

 

By calling Save method of XDocument (actually of XContainer) you can save it to a physical file. And the file will look like,

 

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" ?>

<?test value?>

  <!-- This is comment by you -->

<Employees>

  <Employee id="EMP001">

    <name>Wriju</name>

    <![CDATA[ ~~~~~~~XML CDATA~~~~~~~~]]>

  </Employee>

</Employees>

 

To me this looks like more aligned to the human thinking mechanism.

 

Namoskar!!!