XML File Formatting

[cmhunt]

Hi

I'm currently delivering a series of XML files to clients. Files are all well formed and abide by schema. Clients, however, would like the file formatted for readability. I've told them that they can open the file in IE which'll make it readable but that want line feeds and tabs actually applied within the files. Current situation is that there are no line feeds or tab characters within the file and on viewing in notepad, all information is on one line (as you'd expect really!). Please could someone give me a hand where to start in order to format these files? Would I read in node by node and do the formatting manually or is there a more efficient way of doing this?

Thanks for your help.

Chris

 

[ca8msm]

You could read the contents of the file into a string and simply replace < or > characters to include a cariiage return before or after them. You would then just use the string to recreate the file.

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[chiph]

cmhunt -
Please don't cross-post -- You also posted this in the VB.NET forum.

Chip H.


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