Format XML in C#
September 09, 2009
Below is a small snippet showing how to format (or re-format) XML so it’s indented. XML isn’t stored in this humanly readable way in databases (or in System.XML’s various writers), so this method makes the XML easier on the eyes.
/// <summary> | |
/// Formats the provided XML so it's indented and humanly-readable. | |
/// </summary> | |
/// <param name="inputXml">The input XML to format.</param> | |
/// <returns></returns> | |
public static string FormatXml(string inputXml) | |
{ | |
XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument(); | |
document.Load(new StringReader(inputXml)); | |
StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder(); | |
using (XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(new StringWriter(builder))) | |
{ | |
writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; | |
document.Save(writer); | |
} | |
return builder.ToString(); | |
} |
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