I have a requirement to make an XML file - and the partner is rather sticky about the header. Apparently, the header must be exactly this:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
But whenever I create an XML file I get extraneous properties like this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?>
The hacker in me wants to stop using XMLWriter to make the file so that I have more control over the header; "no problem, I'll just write a loop that makes its own XML tags as a StreamWriter or something, forget this XMLWriter object..." but I must admit that XMLWriter has been rather elegant to use so far; surely there must be something where I can change the XMLWriterSettings object to say "stop putting your custom properties in to the XML header please", right?
Here's the relevant VB code:
Dim settings As New XmlWriterSettings()
settings.Indent = True
settings.IndentChars = " "
settings.NewLineChars = "\n"
Using writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(strFileName, settings)
writer.WriteStartDocument(True)
For Each kvp As KeyValuePair(Of String, String) In dictArguments
Dim key As String = kvp.Key
Dim value As String = kvp.Value
writer.WriteStartElement(key)
writer.WriteString(value)
writer.WriteEndElement()
Next
End Using
Works perfectly; but I can't find a way to control the header. I can find a way to remove it entirely of course but that's not what we want to do.
Edit: thanks for the help; so far once we removed the WriteStartDocument it now no longer displays standalone = yes. I can't get it to stop adding the encoding however. Any ideas?