But I recommend you to use LINQ to XML which is simpler and more readable like here:
#region Using Statements
using System;
using System.Xml.Linq;
#endregion
class Program {
static void Main( string[ ] args ) {
XDocument doc = new XDocument( new XElement( "body",
new XElement( "level1",
new XElement( "level2", "text" ),
new XElement( "level2", "other text" ) ) ) );
doc.Save( "D:\\document.xml" );
}
}
Working with a dictionary ->level2 above comes from a dictionary in my case (just in case anybody will find it useful)
Trying the first example I stumbled over this error:
"This document already has a 'DocumentElement' node."
I was inspired by the answer here
and edited my code: (xmlDoc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(body))
//a dictionary:
Dictionary<string, string> Level2Data
{
{"level2", "text"},
{"level2", "other text"},
{"same_level2", "more text"}
}
//xml Decalration:
XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
XmlDeclaration xmlDeclaration = xmlDoc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", null);
XmlElement root = xmlDoc.DocumentElement;
xmlDoc.InsertBefore(xmlDeclaration, root);
// add body
XmlElement body = xmlDoc.CreateElement(string.Empty, "body", string.Empty);
xmlDoc.AppendChild(body);
XmlElement body = xmlDoc.CreateElement(string.Empty, "body", string.Empty);
xmlDoc.DocumentElement.AppendChild(body); //without DocumentElement ->ERR
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> entry in Level2Data)
{
//write to xml: - it works version 1.
XmlNode keyNode = xmlDoc.CreateElement(entry.Key); //open TAB
keyNode.InnerText = entry.Value;
body.AppendChild(keyNode); //close TAB
//Write to xmml verdion 2: (uncomment the next 4 lines and comment the above 3 - version 1
//XmlElement key = xmlDoc.CreateElement(string.Empty, entry.Key, string.Empty);
//XmlText value = xmlDoc.CreateTextNode(entry.Value);
//key.AppendChild(value);
//body.AppendChild(key);
}
Both versions (1 and 2 inside foreach loop) give the output:
(Note: third line "same level2" in dictionary can be also level2 as the others but I wanted to ilustrate the advantage of the dictionary - in my case I needed level2 with different names.