The System.Xml.XmlTextWriter Class

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Overview

XmlTextWriter is a common implementation of the XmlWriter class that provides a large amount of Write methods that for outputting individual parts of XML documents. An XmlTextWriter object generates a forward-only writer that is performance-friendly.

Example (VB.NET): How to create, write, and read an XML Document using XmlTextWriter and XmlTextReader objects.

The following example first creates an XmlTextWriter object that uses the WriteStartElement, WriteString, and WriteEndElement methods to write a simply element construct to the new XML document. The write is then closed, and the XmlTextReader object is used to open and read in the document, which is then assigned to an XmlDocument object. The document contents are finally displayed.

        Dim objXmlDocument As System.Xml.XmlDocument

        Dim objXmlTextWriter As System.Xml.XmlTextWriter

        Dim objXmlTextReader As System.Xml.XmlTextReader

        objXmlTextWriter = New XmlTextWriter("c:\newtest.xml", Nothing)

        objXmlTextWriter.WriteStartElement("sampleElement")

        objXmlTextWriter.WriteString("new value")

        objXmlTextWriter.WriteEndElement()

        objXmlTextWriter.Close()

        objXmlTextReader = New XmlTextReader("c:\newtest.xml")

        objXmlDocument = New System.Xml.XmlDocument

        objXmlDocument.Load(objXmlTextReader)

        TextBox1.Text = objXmlDocument.OuterXml