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Write List to XML and back
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10/12/2015 12:56:38
 
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Forum:
ASP.NET
Category:
Other
Environment versions
Environment:
C# 4.0
OS:
Windows 10
Network:
Windows 2008 Server
Database:
MS SQL Server
Application:
Web
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Thread ID:
01628791
Message ID:
01628806
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29
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I have been Googling for this question and find many suggestions but none that I understand and see simple.
>>>
>>>I have a List (example below) and I want it to create an XML file and save it in a folder.
>>>
>>>
>>>List<string> MyList = new List<string>();
>>>MyList.Add( "ABC" );
>>>MyList.Add( "CBS" );
>>>MyList.Add( "NBC" );
>>>
>>>// Now I want to write the above list to an XML that will look like this:
>>><?xml version="1.0"?>
>>><Choices>
>>>        <Channel>ABC</Channel>
>>>        <Channel>CBS</Channel>
>>>        <Channel>NBC</Channel>
>>></Choices>
>>>
>>>
>>>TIA for any suggestions.
>>
>>Several ways. One using XmlDocument:
List<string> channels = new List<string> {"ABC", "CBS", "NBC"};
>>            XmlDocument xd = new XmlDocument();
>>            var choices = xd.AppendChild(xd.CreateElement("Choices"));
>>            foreach (String s in channels)
>>            {
>>                var channel = xd.CreateElement("Channel");
>>                channel.InnerText = s;
>>                choices.AppendChild(channel);
>>            }
>>            xd.Save(@"d:\test.xml");
Or you could look at XmlSerializer and adding attributes to classes.
>
>Thank you very much!

Don't forget that, if using Web-Api it call automatically convert response data to XML if that is requested in the headers (likewise for JSon objects)
You may not get the exact XML representation you are looking for but you will get something you can work with on the client end.....
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