XML to string

[Chance1234]

I have a XML file , for arguments sake its

<XML>
  <country>France</country> 
  <country>Spain</country> 
  </XML>

What i want to do is return that as a string so my output would be

"<xml><country>France</country><country>Spain</country></XML>

I can see how to get certain nodes etc using XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument(); but i cant see a way of passing the whole file.,

many thanks





Chance,

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[AlexCuse]

If all you need is an XML string (not an XML file), my first thought was just to open the file as a text stream and read it in that way.

I don't have time to read this article atm (gotta get to work) but it looks like it may be worth looking into (about the XmlTextReader object)

http://www.codeproject.com/useritems/XmlTextReader.asp?print=true

Hope it helps,

Alex

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[Chance1234]

got it wokring with the followng

string fname = "xml/Test4.xml";

        XmlReaderSettings settings = new XmlReaderSettings();
        settings.IgnoreWhitespace = true;
        using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(MapPath(fname)))
        {
            reader.MoveToContent();
            reader.Read();

            string stest = reader.ReadInnerXml()

Chance,

Filmmaker, gentleman and polla stilo eleous