Best practices on creating XML documents in C#

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What is the best way to create an XML document using C#? I'm a newbie with regards to XML and was wanting some guidelines/pointers to get started. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Posted 12-Sep-12 5:28am

joshrduncan2012

Updated 17-Aug-17 4:39am

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[no name] 12-Sep-12 11:31am

Reading the documentation, http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.aspx, is a good place to start.

Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 12-Sep-12 18:36pm

"Best" may means "fastest", "easiest", "most robust", you name it. So, it depends on what you want.
--SA

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Kuthuparakkal · Answer 1 · 2012-09-12T06:57:00

Based on different Scenarios you could use the following:

1. XMLSerializer : Assuming you have an object(class) and you need XML respresentation for this.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xmlserializer.aspx[^]

2. XML Writer: If You are going to create each and every item.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlwriter.aspx[^]

3. Through DataSet's WriteXml method : Assuming you have a dataset already
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hb27k0tf(v=vs.90).aspx[^]

4. XMLDocument.Load
If you already have a string/stream/TextReader/XmlReader respresentation of xml.
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmldocument.aspx[^]

Sandeep Mewara · Answer 2 · 2012-09-12T05:54:00

Solution 1

I would suggest you to go through this: MSDN: Improving XML Performance[^]

Posted 12-Sep-12 5:54am

Sandeep Mewara