Flat xml file c#

Question

I'm wrting xml file with UTF-8 (without Bom) encoding as follow:

xmldecl.Encoding = "UTF-8";
dataDoc.InsertBefore(xmldecl, root);//dataDoc is XmlDocument object
using (var writer = new XmlTextWriter(targetPath, new UTF8Encoding(false)))
{
     dataDoc.Save(writer);
}

My "problem" is the file is saved in one line instead of xml formatting,

I.e if i have the following xml:

<ElementA>
    <ElementB/>
</ElementA>

With my code the xml file will be:

<ElementA><ElementB/></ElementA>

Instead of xml format.

How can i solve it?

*I'm try to open the file with Notepad++

Thanks.

Possible duplicate of [Writing formatted XML with XmlWriter](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7535280/writing-formatted-xml-with-xmlwriter) — Karl-Johan Sjögren, Nov 09 '16 at 16:49
I think duplicate of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1123718/format-xml-string-to-print-friendly-xml-string — Stefano Balzarotti, Nov 09 '16 at 16:49

score 4 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 09 '16 at 16:49

4

XmlTextWriter has a property Formatting to define the way the output is written:

using (var writer = new XmlTextWriter(targetPath, new UTF8Encoding(false)))
{
    writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
    dataDoc.Save(writer);
}

answered Nov 09 '16 at 16:49

Sami Kuhmonen

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