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Atom entry with C#

How can I make an Atom entry with C# and .NET 4 ?

I need to make an entry with this structure:

<entry xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:f="XXX:aaa">
  <title>title1</title>
  <summary>summary1</summary>
</entry>

I tried to do this with SyndicationItem class but entry contains more info than I need:

SyndicationItem atom = new SyndicationItem();
atom.Title = new TextSyndicationContent("test1", TextSyndicationContentKind.Plaintext);

atom.Summary = new TextSyndicationContent("summary1");
atom.AttributeExtensions.Add(new XmlQualifiedName("f", "http://www.w3.org/2000/xmlns/"), "XXX:aaa");


XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
settings.IndentChars = "  ";
settings.NewLineOnAttributes = true;
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
XmlWriter xml = XmlWriter.Create(sb,settings);
atom.SaveAsAtom10(xml);
xml.Close();
Console.WriteLine(sb.ToString());

And the result is:

<entry xmlns:f="XXX:aaa" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">
  <id>uuid:34381971-9feb-4444-9e6a-3fbc412ac6d2;id=1</id>
  <title type="text">title1</title> 
  <summary type="text">summary1</summary>
   <updated>2010-10-29T14:02:48Z</updated>
</entry>

How can I create atom entry object without , and type="*" to make it look exactly I want?

Can you help me to simplify the code?

Thanks!

Solution

  • Why do it yourself?

    Either use the built in features in .Net:

    Or the Argotic Syndication toolkit:

    Edit

    Sorry, missed the part where you use syndication item. Anyway here is some text from the ATOM specification (RFC4287 Section 4.1.2):

    • atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:id element
    • atom:entry elements MUST contain exactly one atom:updated element

    In other words: You'll break the standard if you remove those items.