Creating xml file using xmldocument

Empty ; doc. Empty, "level1", string. Empty ; element1. Empty, "level2", string. CreateTextNode "text" ; element3. AppendChild text1 ; element2. CreateTextNode "other text" ; element4.

AppendChild text2 ; element2. AppendChild element4 ; doc. Community Bot 1 1 1 silver badge. Omar Omar The first example helped me to write an extension function for an XSLT stylesheet, that returns a set of nodes to the processor.

I'd argue that if you replaced the XmlElement with var , the first one would be far easier to work with — Robert Perry. DocumentElement; xmlDoc. Empty ; xmlDoc. CreateElement entry. Value; body. Empty, entry. Key, string. To add comments to existing elements, highlight the node after which or in which you want to insert the comment.

On the Insert menu, click Comment. If the highlighted node is expanded, the comment is inserted within the highlighted node. To change a node's type, highlight the node that you want to change. On the Tools menu, point to Change To and click the appropriate type. The sample output resembles the following:. Also, note that the XML declaration or processing instructions must be added with an external editor, such as Notepad.

Skip to main content. This browser is no longer supported. Download Microsoft Edge More info. Contents Exit focus mode. It can be also used to compute values from the content of an XML document. We load XML data into the XmlDocument and get the root element of the document; we call properties of the root node.

We get the first and last child of the root node with FirstChild and LastChild. The InnerText property returns the values of the node and all its child nodes. The OuterXml property gets the markup containing this node and all its child nodes. The InnerXml property gets or sets the markup representing only the child nodes of this node.

In the example, we remove the last child in the document. Note that the method does not modify the original file; it modifies the in-memory representation of the document and the modified document is saved into a new file. A new element named word is created with CreateElement. Its text is set with InnerText property. The XmlDeclaration is appended to the document with AppendChild. The declaration tag is the first tag in the document.