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How do I set Indent property on XmlWriter for specific element node

Sorry if title is confusing, here is what I want to achieve. I have a XmlWriter object that is being created and passed to a method

public static void foo(XmlWriter xw)
{
   xw.WriteStartElement("root");
}

At this point XmlWriter was instantiated, and Xml declaration was already written. Now, afer the root element is written, I need to set Indent property on XmlWriter to true ( it was set to false when XmlWriter was created ). Something like this

public static void foo(XmlWriter xw)
{
   xw.WriteStartElement("root");
   // xw.Settings.Indent = true; - I know this won't work
   // continue writing elements...
}

Can't find a way how to set Indent at that point. Any ideas ?

Solution

  • use XmlTextWriter. You can then set the Indentation property to the number of spaces you want to indent. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmltextwriter.indentation.aspx

    To use the Indent property, you can't have mixed content http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.xmlwritersettings.indent.aspx

    "The elements are indented as long as the element does not contain mixed content. Once the WriteString or WriteWhitespace method is called to write out a mixed element content, the XmlWriter stops indenting. The indenting resumes once the mixed content element is closed."