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Writing XML Exactly as XML Literals are Written

Answer 1

+1 A:

Any chance the unicode backspace character would solve your problem?

http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/0008/index.htm

Update

One other idea. Have you looked into the XDocument.Save(TextWriter textWriter, SaveOptions saveOptions) method? The documentation says that if you use SaveOptions.DisableFormatting, it will preserve spacing.

DanM 2010-01-29 05:41:07

I've tried this and it doesn't appear to have any effect as the backspace character just simply shows as a plain text.

Otaku 2010-01-29 06:25:39

@Otaku, I updated my post with another suggestion.

DanM 2010-01-29 07:34:31

Thanks Dan. I tried this and it kind of works. The main issue is how XAML is read by WPF/SL - it doesn't preserve spacing despite the Linq documentation. So in the case of this and tyranid's suggestion of leaving whitespaces within tags, like <Run> , <Run>, XAML will still not display those whitespaces. I may be able to get around that using something more like <Run Text=" , "/>. I'll let this thread fester for a day or two to see if some other ideas come in that are different than file format saves. That may be the only option though I realize.

Otaku 2010-01-29 17:23:56

Answer 2

+2 A:

I don't suppose using a span will help you (as it will keep non-formatted text out of XML elements so it might not get auto-formatted).

i.e.

<TextBlock>
    <Span>                
        Hey
        <Bold>John</Bold>, 
        <Italic>what did Sushi A say to Sushi B?</Italic>
    </Span>            
</TextBlock>

Obviously this only fixes the specific case not the general, I would probably suggest not using XML literals :)

tyranid 2010-01-29 05:48:01

thanks, this does indeed work for the exact scenario. however, i do need to use runs for some of the properties they hold (like Foreground and Fontsize. +1 for a good suggestion though.On not using XML Literals, I'd also be happy with just plain ol' Linq-to-XML (Dim tb as New XElement("TextBlock", content), etc.) if there is a way to do that in place of literals.

Otaku 2010-01-29 06:24:32

How exactly are you passing the XElement into XAML? If you are just passing it to XElement::ToString then there _is_ an option to disable output formatting. Do `tb.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting)` You will need to ensure any white space you actually want is in the runs (i.e. <run>, </run>)Which is pretty much the same as below :)

tyranid 2010-01-29 15:49:12

Yeah, I was testing this per Dan's suggestion. It kind of works.

Otaku 2010-01-29 17:25:32

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