XmlWriter.WriteString(String) Method

Definition

Namespace:

System.Xml

Assembly:

System.Xml.ReaderWriter.dll

Source:

XmlWriter.cs

When overridden in a derived class, writes the given text content.

public:
 abstract void WriteString(System::String ^ text);

public abstract void WriteString (string? text);

abstract member WriteString : string -> unit

Public MustOverride Sub WriteString (text As String)

Parameters

text

String

The text to write.

Exceptions

ArgumentException

The text string contains an invalid surrogate pair.

InvalidOperationException

An XmlWriter method was called before a previous asynchronous operation finished. In this case, InvalidOperationException is thrown with the message "An asynchronous operation is already in progress."

Examples

The following example writes an XML node.

#using <System.Xml.dll>

using namespace System;
using namespace System::IO;
using namespace System::Xml;
int main()
{
   
   // Create a writer to write XML to the console.
   XmlWriterSettings^ settings = gcnew XmlWriterSettings;
   settings->Indent = true;
   settings->OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
   XmlWriter^ writer = XmlWriter::Create( Console::Out, settings );
   
   // Write the book element.
   writer->WriteStartElement( L"book" );
   
   // Write the title element.
   writer->WriteStartElement( L"title" );
   writer->WriteString( L"Pride And Prejudice" );
   writer->WriteEndElement();
   
   // Write the close tag for the root element.
   writer->WriteEndElement();
   
   // Write the XML and close the writer.
   writer->Close();
   return 1;
}

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

public class Sample {

  public static void Main() {

     // Create a writer to write XML to the console.
     XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
     settings.Indent = true;
     settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;
     XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(Console.Out, settings);

     // Write the book element.
     writer.WriteStartElement("book");

     // Write the title element.
     writer.WriteStartElement("title");
     writer.WriteString("Pride And Prejudice");
     writer.WriteEndElement();

     // Write the close tag for the root element.
     writer.WriteEndElement();

     // Write the XML and close the writer.
     writer.Close();
  }
}

Option Explicit
Option Strict

Imports System.IO
Imports System.Xml

Public Class Sample
    
  Public Shared Sub Main()

     ' Create a writer to write XML to the console.
     Dim settings As XmlWriterSettings = new XmlWriterSettings()
     settings.Indent = true
     settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true
     Dim writer As XmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(Console.Out, settings)

     ' Write the book element.
     writer.WriteStartElement("book")
        
     ' Write the title element.
     writer.WriteStartElement("title")
     writer.WriteString("Pride And Prejudice")
     writer.WriteEndElement()
        
     ' Write the close tag for the root element.
     writer.WriteEndElement()
        
     ' Write the XML and close the writer.
     writer.Close()

  End Sub
End Class

Remarks

WriteString does the following:

• The characters &, <, and > are replaced with &, <, and >, respectively.

• The default behavior of an XmlWriter created using Create is to throw an ArgumentException when attempting to write character values in the range 0x-0x1F (excluding white space characters 0x9, 0xA, and 0xD). These invalid XML characters can be written by creating the XmlWriter with the CheckCharacters property set to false. Doing so will result in the characters being replaced with numeric character entities (� through &#0x1F). Additionally, an XmlTextWriter created with the new operator will replace the invalid characters with numeric character entities by default.

Note Microsoft does not encourage the practice of writing invalid XML characters since many applications that consume XML are not designed to handle invalid characters.

• If WriteString is called in the context of an attribute value, double and single quotes are replaced with " and ' respectively.

For example, this input string test<item>test is written out as

test<item>test

If text is either null or String.Empty, this method writes a text node with no data content.

For the asynchronous version of this method, see WriteStringAsync.