root node for xml file with asp.net C#

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I have xml file without root tag & I have used stringbuilder,xmltextwriter to generate this file.
how to set start root tag& end root tag for this.

Posted 20-Jun-12 15:10pm

oliver grace

Updated 20-Jun-12 21:53pm

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Wonde Tadesse 20-Jun-12 21:46pm

May I ask why you need an xml file without root node?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Jun-12 0:42am

Wonde, you are so right, that your question is not even correct: you cannot call such thing XML. Whatever is not a well-formed XML is not XML at all. Please see my answer.
--SA

AmitGajjar 21-Jun-12 0:38am

can you give us your sample code. so that we can correct it.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Jun-12 0:44am

Excuse me, what are you going to correct? non-well-formed XML (which is not XML at all then) or the code which should not work in principle? Such "problems" simply should not be considered -- please see my answer.
--SA

AmitGajjar 21-Jun-12 1:10am

your right SA. but after looking at what oliver have created, we can suggest something. if he is misunderstand the concept of the xml. am i correct ?

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 21-Jun-12 12:23pm

It seems to me you are right.
--SA

oliver grace 21-Jun-12 3:50am

public static void WriteLogInformation(string info1,string info2,string info3)
{
string filename = @"D:\sql\XMLDOCUMENTS\testlog2.xml";
//string filename = @"D:\sql\XMLDOCUMENTS\" + DateTime.Now.ToString("yyyy-MM-dd") + "Log.xml";
StringBuilder sbuilder = new StringBuilder();
using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter(sbuilder))
{

using (XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(sw))
{

//w.WriteStartElement("Root");
w.WriteStartElement("Username");
w.WriteElementString("Info1", info1);
w.WriteElementString("Time", "Logged at '" + DateTime.Now.ToString() + "'");
w.WriteEndElement();
w.WriteStartElement("UI");
w.WriteElementString("Info2", info2);
w.WriteEndElement();
w.WriteStartElement("Message");
w.WriteElementString("Info3", info3);
w.WriteElementString("Time", DateTime.Now.ToString());
w.WriteEndElement();

}
}
using (StreamWriter w = new StreamWriter(filename, true, Encoding.UTF8))
{
w.WriteLine(sbuilder.ToString());
}

}
Can I use this method for my application.i want to call this method into all the pages in my application.
If I set root for this method each & every page generate the root but i need common root for my application.

Thank you All

AmitGajjar 21-Jun-12 5:06am

see XML and LINQ

oliver grace 21-Jun-12 23:59pm

Amitgajjar thanks for your link its very useful for me...

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov · Answer 1 · 2012-06-20T18:41:00

The answer is not simple, but is very simple. If you have something without a root node (which is properly called document element), this "something" is not XML at all, because this is not a well-formed XML text. You cannot work with such thing using anything related to XML. So, either use real XML, or forget about any .NET XML classes and create your own — from scratch (good luck with that :-)).

Let's see. Suppose you have the simplest example:

HTML

<!-- this is NOT XML: -->
<a>First node</a>
<b>Second node</b>

Load it in any Web browser, for a simple test. This is a typical result:

XML

XML Parsing Error: junk after document element
Location: [...]
Line Number 2, Column 1:<b>Second node</b>
^

That's it. Forget it.

—SA