C# Print Any Complete XML Document to Console?

Question

C# Print Any Complete XML Document to Console?

Anyone have a snippet?

(Hides behind the cubicle...shit.)

Answer 1

Are you just looking for:

Console.WriteLine(myXmlDoc.OuterXml); // Using System.Xml.XmlDocument

Answer 2

I know this an old post but FWIW: Here's how you can "pretty print" your XML ...

public static String PrettyPrintXML(String sourceXML, Encoding encoding)
{
    using (MemoryStream memory = new MemoryStream())
    {
        using (XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memory, encoding))
        {
            XmlDocument document = new XmlDocument();
            document.LoadXml(sourceXml);
            xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
            xmlWriter.Indentation = 4;
            document.WriteContentTo(xmlWriter);
            xmlWriter.Flush();
            memory.Position = 0;
            using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(memory))
            {
                return reader.ReadToEnd();
            }
        }
    }
}

Answer 3

If you use an XDocument (in System.Xml.Linq) for your XML you can just call ToString() on it for an indented version of the XML within.

XDocument doc = XDocument.Load(Server.MapPath("~/Data.xml"));
Console.WriteLine(doc.ToString());

If you don't want it indented then use the overload of ToString() and pass in a SaveOptions enumeration:

Console.WriteLine(doc.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting));