Mega Code Archive
Read and Write XML Without Loading an Entire Document into Memory
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using System;
using System.Xml;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
public class ReadWriteXml {
private static void Main() {
FileStream fs = new FileStream("products.xml", FileMode.Create);
XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(fs, Encoding.UTF8);
w.WriteStartDocument();
w.WriteStartElement("products");
w.WriteStartElement("product");
w.WriteAttributeString("id", "01");
w.WriteElementString("name", "C#");
w.WriteElementString("price", "0.99");
w.WriteEndElement();
w.WriteEndElement();
w.WriteEndDocument();
w.Flush();
fs.Close();
Console.WriteLine("Document created.");
fs = new FileStream("products.xml", FileMode.Open);
XmlTextReader r = new XmlTextReader(fs);
while (r.Read()) {
if (r.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element) {
Console.WriteLine("<" + r.Name + ">");
if (r.HasAttributes) {
for (int i = 0; i < r.AttributeCount; i++) {
Console.WriteLine("\tATTRIBUTE: " + r.GetAttribute(i));
}
}
}else if (r.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text) {
Console.WriteLine("\tVALUE: " + r.Value);
}
}
}
}
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