XML Writer

XmlWriter is a simple fast forward only non-chached xml writer, in short it's useful to only write xml.

using System;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml;

class Program

{

    static void Main(string[] args)

    {

        using (var sw = new StringWriter())

        {

            using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(sw,

                    new XmlWriterSettings() { Indent = true }))

            {

                writer.WriteStartDocument();

                writer.WriteStartElement("People");

                writer.WriteStartElement("Person");

                writer.WriteAttributeString("FirstName", "Pawel");

                writer.WriteAttributeString("LastName", "Chooch");

                writer.WriteStartElement("ContactDetails");

                writer.WriteElementString("EmailAddress", "fake@yahoo.com");

                writer.WriteEndElement(); //contactDetails

                writer.WriteEndElement(); //Person

                writer.WriteStartElement("Person");

                writer.WriteAttributeString("FirstName", "Tomek");

                writer.WriteAttributeString("LastName", "Chooch");

                writer.Flush();

            }

            Console.WriteLine(sw.ToString());

        }

    }

}

notice the WriteEndElement(); it's used to close the previous xml node, if we didn't do this then the following person would have been a child of Contact details, with them in place our output is



And if it was omitted.



Notice the location of the second person we added tomek.