Write To XML File

   

/*
 * C# Programmers Pocket Consultant
 * Author: Gregory S. MacBeth
 * Email: gmacbeth@comporium.net
 * Create Date: June 27, 2003
 * Last Modified Date:
 * Version: 1
 */
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Schema;


namespace Client.Chapter_22___XML
{
  public class WriteToXMLFile
  {
    static void Main(string[] args)
    {
      string document = "newbooks.xml";
      XmlTextWriter myXmlTextWriter = null;
      XmlTextReader myXmlTextReader = null;

      myXmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(args[1], null);
      myXmlTextWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteStartDocument(false);
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteDocType("bookstore", null, "books.dtd", null);
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteComment("This file represents another fragment of a book store inventory database");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteStartElement("bookstore");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteStartElement("book", null);
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteAttributeString("genre", "autobiography");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteAttributeString("publicationdate", "1979");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteAttributeString("ISBN", "0-7356-0562-9");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteElementString("title", null, "The Autobiography of Mark Twain");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteStartElement("Author", null);
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteElementString("first-name", "Mark");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteElementString("last-name", "Twain");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteEndElement();
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteElementString("price", "7.99");
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteEndElement();
      myXmlTextWriter.WriteEndElement();

      //Write the XML to file and close the writer
      myXmlTextWriter.Flush();
      myXmlTextWriter.Close();
      if (myXmlTextWriter != null)
        myXmlTextWriter.Close();
    }
  }

}