Line Break in XML-Cant preserve linebreaks when converting string to xml

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Is there Any way to preserve line breaks in xml?

am having data(string) that contain line breaks and other informations.and i need to preserve that.but When i converted into xml it lost all line breaks.

Is there any possible way to do so?

Am using "XMLDOCUMENT.loadXml" method to load string to xml."PreserveWhitespace" property doesn't feed the requirement.

Posted 10-Feb-11 21:10pm

Nithin kd

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Albin Abel · Answer 1 · 2011-02-10T23:05:00

Solution 1

Mean the \n?

XML

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml("<xml>This my first string \\n This is my second</xml>");
MessageBox.Show(doc.OuterXml.ToString());

Actually the new line chars are not lost. While converting xml it apply it and print a second line. Instead if you want to display it , then need to escape it

Posted 10-Feb-11 23:05pm

Albin Abel

Updated 10-Feb-11 23:22pm

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Nithin kd 24-Feb-11 7:23am

thank you for your reply.now it is clear.

#realJSOP · Answer 2 · 2011-02-11T00:12:00

Solution 2

Check this link.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms256097.aspx[^]

I think you need to set the line break to \r\n to see an actual line break in your data.

Posted 11-Feb-11 0:12am

#realJSOP

syasevich · Answer 3 · 2011-06-04T12:12:00

StringBuilder outstr = new StringBuilder();

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent=true;
settings.NewLineChars = Environment.NewLine;
settings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Replace;

XmlWriter w = XmlWriter.Create(outstr, settings);

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.LoadXml(xmlString);
doc.WriteTo(w);
string here_is_a_formatted_xml_string = outstr.ToString();