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XML ❘ ChaPTer 33 mAnipulAtinG xml
Xelement
One object that you will work with frequently is the XElement object. With XElement objects, you can
easily create single-element objects that are XML documents themselves, as well as fragments of XML. For
instance, here is an example of writing an XML element with a corresponding value:
XElement xe = new XElement("Company", "Lipper");
Console.WriteLine(xe.ToString());
In the creation of a XElement object, you can define the name of the element as well as the value used
in the element. In this case, the name of the element will be , and the value of the
element will be Lipper. Running this in a console application with a System.Xml.Linq reference produces
the following result:
Lipper
You can create an even more complete XML document using multiple XElement objects, as illustrated in the
following example:
using System;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml.Linq;
namespace ConsoleApplication1
{
class Class1
{
static void Main()
{
XElement xe = new XElement("Company",
new XElement("CompanyName", "Lipper"),
new XElement("CompanyAddress",
new XElement("Address", "123 Main Street"),
new XElement("City", "St. Louis"),
new XElement("State", "MO"),
new XElement("Country", "USA")));
Console.WriteLine(xe.ToString());
}
}
}
Console.ReadLine();
code download ConsoleApplication1.sln
Running this application produces the results illustrated in Figure 33-7.
figure 33-7
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