Writing to XML in a Pocket PC

Question

Hi again.

I have a list of songs which I want to output to an external XML file using a smart device (pocket pc).

String path = GetAppDir();
string filePath = path + @"\output\songs.xml";
XmlWriter xmlOut = XmlWriter.Create(filePath, settings);


xmlOut.WriteStartDocument();
xmlOut.WriteStartElement("Songs");


foreach (Song songTmp in finalbasket)
{
    xmlOut.WriteStartElement("Songs");
    xmlOut.WriteAttributeString("Name", songTmp.SongName);
    xmlOut.WriteElementString("Artist", songTmp.SongArtist);
    xmlOut.WriteElementString("Price", Convert.ToString(songTmp.SongPrice));
    xmlOut.WriteEndElement();
}


xmlOut.WriteEndElement();


xmlOut.Close();

The application seems to write the xml document but it always comes up empty. There are indeed items in the 'finalbasket' list. Any ideas what I am doing wrong?

Answer 1

I think you need an

xmlOut.WriteEndDocument();

right before the xmlOut.Close(). Also, I'm not sure if this is part of your problem, but this line:

xmlOut.WriteStartElement("Songs");

should probably be this:

xmlOut.WriteStartElement("Song");