How to put an encoding attribute to xml other that utf-16 with XmlWriter?

Question

I've got a function creating some XmlDocument:

public string CreateOutputXmlString(ICollection<Field> fields)
        {
            XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
            settings.Indent = true;
            settings.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1250");

            StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder();
            XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(builder, settings);

            writer.WriteStartDocument();
            writer.WriteStartElement("data");
            foreach (Field field in fields)
            {
                writer.WriteStartElement("item");
                writer.WriteAttributeString("name", field.Id);
                writer.WriteAttributeString("value", field.Value);
                writer.WriteEndElement();
            }
            writer.WriteEndElement();
            writer.Flush();
            writer.Close();

            return builder.ToString();

        }

I set an encoding but after i create XmlWriter it does have utf-16 encoding. I know it's because strings (and StringBuilder i suppose) are encoded in utf-16 and you can't change it.
So how can I easily create this xml with the encoding attribute set to "windows-1250"? it doesn't even have to be encoded in this encoding, it just has to have the specified attribute.

edit: it has to be in .Net 2.0 so any new framework elements cannot be used.

Answer 1

You need to use a StringWriter with the appropriate encoding. Unfortunately StringWriter doesn't let you specify the encoding directly, so you need a class like this:

public sealed class StringWriterWithEncoding : StringWriter
{
    private readonly Encoding encoding;

    public StringWriterWithEncoding (Encoding encoding)
    {
        this.encoding = encoding;
    }

    public override Encoding Encoding
    {
        get { return encoding; }
    }
}

(This question is similar but not quite a duplicate.)

EDIT: To answer the comment: pass the StringWriterWithEncoding to XmlWriter.Create instead of the StringBuilder, then call ToString() on it at the end.

Answer 2

I actually solved the problem with MemoryStream:

public static string CreateOutputXmlString(ICollection<Field> fields)
        {
            XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
            settings.Indent = true;
            settings.Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1250");

            MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();
            XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(memStream, settings);

            writer.WriteStartDocument();
            writer.WriteStartElement("data");
            foreach (Field field in fields)
            {
                writer.WriteStartElement("item");
                writer.WriteAttributeString("name", field.Id);
                writer.WriteAttributeString("value", field.Value);
                writer.WriteEndElement();
            }
            writer.WriteEndElement();
            writer.Flush();
            writer.Close();

            writer.Flush();
            writer.Close();

            string xml = Encoding.GetEncoding("windows-1250").GetString(memStream.ToArray());

            memStream.Close();
            memStream.Dispose();

            return xml;
        }