How to add links to xml

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I am writing to seek help, in adding 'href'/'uri' node link to my xml document code below. My desired output, I aiming for as shown below:

C#

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
   {
       string xmlString = "<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>";
     xmlString += "<Pub>";
     xmlString += "<pub_code ='p1'>";
       xmlString += "<name>News</name>";
         xmlString += "<Category>NL</Category>";
       xmlString += "</pub_code>";
     xmlString += "</Pub>";

     XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
     doc.LoadXml(xmlString);
     doc.Save(Server.MapPath("products-string.xml"));

     Response.Redirect("products-string.xml"); // load file in browser
   }

Desired output:

HTML

<pub code="ABC" uri="https://api.####.com/###/###">
<name>...</name>
<category>...</category>
<link rel="http://api-info.#########.com/v2/###/######.####"
href="https://api.####.com/###/###" title="Issue" />
</publication>

I have tried adding the link within the xml code, but I keep experiencing compiling errors. Is their example or some guide I could follow, to get my code to display the desired output.

Many thanks for your help

Posted 2-Sep-14 4:39am

miss786

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Sergey Alexandrovich Kryukov 2-Sep-14 13:08pm

First, if this is your desired output, why not populating your XML with desired data, instead of something else?
Secondly, the approach is bad. If you are already using XmlDocument, why having this XML text input, why not manipulating this object directly? The overall goal of your manipulations is not clear.
—SA

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George Jonsson · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-02T16:23:00

You can use XmlDocument or XDocument (LINQ).
It is a matter of choice, but the point is that these classes are made for creating well formatted XML structures.

This is an example using XDocument and XElement.
It will give you the output you want.

C#

XElement xeRoot = new XElement("publication");
xeRoot.Add(new XAttribute("code", "ABC"));
xeRoot.Add(new XAttribute("uri", @"https://api.####.com/###/###"));

XElement xeName = new XElement("name");
// Add data to the name node.
// ...
xeRoot.Add(xeName);

XElement xeCategory = new XElement("category");
// Add data to the category node.
// ...
xeRoot.Add(xeCategory);

XElement xeLink = new XElement("link");
xeLink.Add(new XAttribute("rel", @"http://api-info.#########.com/v2/###/######.####"));
xeLink.Add(new XAttribute("href", @"https://api.####.com/###/###"));
xeLink.Add(new XAttribute("title", "Issue"));
xeRoot.Add(xeLink);

XDocument xDoc = new XDocument(xeRoot);
xDoc.Save("products-string.xml");

Renju Vinod · Accepted Answer · 2014-09-02T19:19:00

Hi,

Please try this

C#

protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
  StringBuilder xmlString = new StringBuilder();
  xmlString.Append("<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?>");
  xmlString.Append("<pub code=\"ABC\" uri=\"https://api.####.com/###/###\">");
  xmlString.Append("<category>...</category>");
  xmlString.Append("<link rel=\"http://api-info.#########.com/v2/###/######.####\" href=\"https://api.####.com/###/###\" title=\"Issue\" />");
  xmlString.Append("</pub>");

  XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
  doc.LoadXml(xmlString.ToString());
  doc.Save(Server.MapPath("products-string.xml"));
  Response.Redirect("products-string.xml");
}

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