XmlWriterSettings Constructor

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml

Assemblies:

netstandard.dll, System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll

Source:

XmlWriterSettings.cs

Initializes a new instance of the XmlWriterSettings class.

C#

public XmlWriterSettings();

Examples

The following example creates an XmlWriter object that uses the TAB character for indentation.

C#

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Text;

public class Sample {

  public static void Main() {

    XmlWriter writer = null;

    try {

       // Create an XmlWriterSettings object with the correct options.
       XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
       settings.Indent = true;
       settings.IndentChars = ("\t");
       settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;

       // Create the XmlWriter object and write some content.
       writer = XmlWriter.Create("data.xml", settings);
       writer.WriteStartElement("book");
       writer.WriteElementString("item", "tesing");
       writer.WriteEndElement();
    
       writer.Flush();
     }
     finally  {
        if (writer != null)
          writer.Close();
     }
  }
}

Remarks

The following table shows initial property values for an instance of XmlWriterSettings.

Property	Initial Value
Async	false.
CheckCharacters	true.
CloseOutput	false.
ConformanceLevel	Document.
Encoding	Encoding.UTF8.
Indent	false.
IndentChars	Two spaces.
NewLineChars	\r\n (carriage return, line feed) for non-Unix platforms, or \n (line feed) for Unix platforms.
NewLineHandling	Replace.
NewLineOnAttributes	false.
OmitXmlDeclaration	false.
WriteEndDocumentOnClose	true.

Applies to