How do I generate this XML in C#?

Question

I have an example XML file that I need to generate on the fly in a console application.

This is an example of the first part of the required XML document:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ABC123.xsl" ?>
<CPPData xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="CPPData_V1.14.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
    <Envelope>
        <EnvelopeNode NumOrdre="1">
        </EnvelopeNode>
    </Envelope>
</CPPData>

I have a method creates and returns an XElement which contains all the data required by the body of the XML (e.g. everything inside the CPPData element).

However I can't figure out how to add the following:

<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="ABC123.xsl" ?> to the XDocument
<CPPData xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="CPPData_V1.14.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"> to the XElement

For the second, see https://stackoverflow.com/questions/8324960/creating-xdocument-with-xsischemalocation-namespace (but obviously replace schemaLocation with noNamespaceSchemaLocation) — canton7, Jan 05 '22 at 16:17

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 05 '22 at 16:31

var xml = new XDocument();
var xp = new XProcessingInstruction(target: "xml-stylesheet", data: @"type=""text/xsl"" href=""ABC123.xsl""");
xml.Add(xp);
XNamespace ns = "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xml.Add(new XElement("root",
          new XAttribute(ns + "noNamespaceSchemaLocation", "CPPData_V1.14.xsd"),
          new XAttribute(XNamespace.Xmlns + "xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance")
));

How do I generate this XML in C#?

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