Help needed with c# and XML

Noelie

Hi,

I'm updating an XML file using a small C# program the problem i'm having is that after i've made an update and saved the file the format of the XML file is changing.
Originally like this

<tu> 
<tuv lang="EN-US">
<seg>4) Click on &quot;Verify Email&quot;</seg>
</tuv>
<tuv lang="SV-SE">
<seg>4) Klicka p&#229; &quot;Verify Email&quot;</seg>
</tuv>
</tu>

but ends like this

    <tu> 
      <tuv lang="EN-US">
        <seg>4) Click on "Verify Email"</seg>
      </tuv>
      <tuv lang="SV-SE">
        <seg>4) Klicka p&#229; "Verify Email"</seg>
      </tuv>
    </tu>

I'm using a XmlDocumnet to open the XML file. I fill a XMLNodeList with GetElementsByTagName("tag name") and then loop through the list looking for what i want.

Is there a way to trim leading white space from before a XML tag in an entire file?

Thanks for any help.

fasty

What are you using to write the XML file after the update?

If you're using and XmlTextWriter, it's got a Settings property that gives you an XmlWriterSettings object. It has a property called Indent that which you can set to false.

kayos

I think the fact the quotes are not getting encoded would be more of a problem that the indents. Unless of course you are really worried about file size.

How are you writing the file?

Noelie

Thanks for the help guys.
Fasty, I wasn't using the XmlTextWrite, i was overwriting the XmlNodelist and then saving the file.

I ended up just writing a function to read the file back in once the process was complete and i would trim the leading space. I them wrote another funtion that would convert the quotes back to html entities, however currenty it will only work for quotes and apostrifies at the moment

I don't think the additional space would have had an effect on the file i'm just being a little paranoid so want the output to be identical to the input.

thanks for the replies anyway.