Create XML using class XmlTextWriter

This is an example to create XML document using XmlTextWriter in C#.

 

The following XML is the result i want to generate.

1. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="gb2312"?>
2. <Books>
3.   <Book genre="Mystery" publicationdate="2001" ISBN="123456789">
4.     <title>The Case of the Missing Cookie</title>
5.     <author Country="America">
6.       <name>Cookie Monster</name>
7.     </author>
8.     <price>$9.99</price>
9.   </Book>
10. </Books>

 

The C# code is as follows,

1. XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter("d://file.xml", Encoding.Default);
2.             xtw.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
4.             xtw.WriteStartDocument();
5.             xtw.WriteStartElement("Books");
6.             // First Book
7.             xtw.WriteStartElement("Book");
8.             // write book attributes
9.             xtw.WriteAttributeString("genre", "Mystery");
10.             xtw.WriteAttributeString("publicationdate", "2001");
11.             xtw.WriteAttributeString("ISBN", "123456789");
13.             // write book elements
14.             xtw.WriteElementString("title", "The Case of the Missing Cookie");
16.             // write sub element
17.             xtw.WriteStartElement("author");
18.             xtw.WriteAttributeString("Country", "America");
19.             xtw.WriteElementString("name", "Cookie Monster");
20.             xtw.WriteEndElement();
22.             xtw.WriteElementString("price", "$9.99");
24.             xtw.WriteEndElement();
26.             xtw.WriteEndElement();
27.             xtw.WriteEndDocument();
28.             // close writer
29.             xtw.Close();