Is it the Correct way to create an XML like this:

Question

I want to create something like this at run-time:

  <CWS>
    <Case name="10-040-00022">
      <CaseDetailsSet>
        <CaseDetail title="Patient name" /> 
        <CaseDetail title="Date of birth" /> 
      </CaseDetailsSet>
    </Case>
  </CWS>

so I wrote something like this ( I wish to use DOM in .NET .. not the XMLWriter,etc)

    XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

    XmlElement root = doc.CreateElement("CWS");
    XmlElement singleCase = doc.CreateElement("Case");

    root.AppendChild(singleCase);

    singleCase.SetAttribute("name", "10-040-00022");

    XmlElement CaseDetailsSet = doc.CreateElement("CaseDetailsSet");
    singleCase.AppendChild(CaseDetailsSet);

    XmlElement CaseDetail = doc.CreateElement("CaseDetail");
    CaseDetailsSet.AppendChild(CaseDetail);
    CaseDetail.SetAttribute("title", "Patient Name");

please have a look at it and tell me if I am oing something wrong , regardign the code I worte to create that structure above.

much appreciated.

Answer 1

I don't see a problem with your code. If it creates the xml you want, it should be ok. There are many different ways of creating xml documents, yours seems to be okay.

Answer 2

Two things:

1. You'll need to append the root to the XmlDocument.

2. You need to add the second CaseDetail.

   XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
   
   
   XmlElement root = doc.CreateElement("CWS");
   
   
   doc.AppendChild(root); // Append the root element to the XmlDocument
   
   
   XmlElement singleCase = doc.CreateElement("Case");
   
   
   root.AppendChild(singleCase);
   
   
   singleCase.SetAttribute("name", "10-040-00022");
   
   
   XmlElement CaseDetailsSet = doc.CreateElement("CaseDetailsSet");
   singleCase.AppendChild(CaseDetailsSet);
   
   
   XmlElement CaseDetail = doc.CreateElement("CaseDetail");
   CaseDetailsSet.AppendChild(CaseDetail);
   CaseDetail.SetAttribute("title", "Patient Name");
   
   
   // add the second case detail
   XmlElement CaseDetailDateOfBirth = doc.CreateElement("CaseDetail");
   CaseDetailsSet.AppendChild(CaseDetailDateOfBirth);
   CaseDetailDateOfBirth.SetAttribute("title", "Date of birth");
   

Answer 3

Just thought I'd show how to do this with Linq-to-XML

XElement doc = new XElement("CWS",
    new XElement("Case",
        new XAttribute("name", "10-040-00022"),
        new XElement("CaseDetailSet",
            new XElement("CaseDetail",
                new XAttribute("title", "Patient name")),
            new XElement("CaseDetail",
                new XAttribute("title", "Date of birth")))));