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:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<body>
<level1>
<level2>text</level2>
<level2>ther text</level2>
<same_level2>more text</same_level2>
</level1>
</body>
(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.