For simple cases, I would also suggest looking at XmlOutput a fluent interface for building Xml.
XmlOutput is great for simple Xml creation with readable and maintainable code, while generating valid Xml. The orginal post has some great examples.
new XElement("Foo",
from s in nameValuePairList
select
new XElement("Bar",
new XAttribute("SomeAttr", "SomeAttrValue"),
new XElement("Name", s.Name),
new XElement("Value", s.Value)
)
);
XmlWriter is the fastest way to write good XML. XDocument, XMLDocument and some others works good aswell, but are not optimized for writing XML. If you want to write the XML as fast as possible, you should definitely use XmlWriter.
For simple cases, I would also suggest looking at XmlOutput a fluent interface for building Xml.
XmlOutput is great for simple Xml creation with readable and maintainable code, while generating valid Xml. The orginal post has some great examples.
XmlWriter is the fastest way to write good XML. XDocument, XMLDocument and some others works good aswell, but are not optimized for writing XML. If you want to write the XML as fast as possible, you should definitely use XmlWriter.
In the past I have created my XML Schema, then used a tool to generate C# classes which will serialize to that schema. The XML Schema Definition Tool is one example
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6c1kb0s(VS.71).aspx
As above.
I use stringbuilder.append().
Very straightforward, and you can then do xmldocument.load(strinbuilder object as parameter).
You will probably find yourself using string.concat within the append parameter, but this is a very straightforward approach.
For simple things, I just use the XmlDocument/XmlNode/XmlAttribute classes and XmlDocument DOM found in System.XML.
It generates the XML for me, I just need to link a few items together.
However, on larger things, I use XML serialization.
For simple cases, I would also suggest looking at XmlOutput a fluent interface for building Xml.
XmlOutput is great for simple Xml creation with readable and maintainable code, while generating valid Xml. The orginal post has some great examples.
For simple things, I just use the XmlDocument/XmlNode/XmlAttribute classes and XmlDocument DOM found in System.XML.
It generates the XML for me, I just need to link a few items together.
However, on larger things, I use XML serialization.
In the past I have created my XML Schema, then used a tool to generate C# classes which will serialize to that schema. The XML Schema Definition Tool is one example
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6c1kb0s(VS.71).aspx
As above.
I use stringbuilder.append().
Very straightforward, and you can then do xmldocument.load(strinbuilder object as parameter).
You will probably find yourself using string.concat within the append parameter, but this is a very straightforward approach.
As above.
I use stringbuilder.append().
Very straightforward, and you can then do xmldocument.load(strinbuilder object as parameter).
You will probably find yourself using string.concat within the append parameter, but this is a very straightforward approach.
XmlWriter is the fastest way to write good XML. XDocument, XMLDocument and some others works good aswell, but are not optimized for writing XML. If you want to write the XML as fast as possible, you should definitely use XmlWriter.
new XElement("Foo",
from s in nameValuePairList
select
new XElement("Bar",
new XAttribute("SomeAttr", "SomeAttrValue"),
new XElement("Name", s.Name),
new XElement("Value", s.Value)
)
);
For simple cases, I would also suggest looking at XmlOutput a fluent interface for building Xml.
XmlOutput is great for simple Xml creation with readable and maintainable code, while generating valid Xml. The orginal post has some great examples.
The best thing hands down that I have tried is LINQ to XSD (which is unknown to most developers). You give it an XSD Schema and it generates a perfectly mapped complete strongly-typed object model (based on LINQ to XML) for you in the background, which is really easy to work with - and it updates and validates your object model and XML in real-time. While it's still "Preview", I have not encountered any bugs with it.
If you have an XSD Schema that looks like this:
<xs:element name="RootElement">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Element1" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="Element2" type="xs:string" />
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="Attribute1" type="xs:integer" use="optional" />
<xs:attribute name="Attribute2" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Then you can simply build XML like this:
RootElement rootElement = new RootElement;
rootElement.Element1 = "Element1";
rootElement.Element2 = "Element2";
rootElement.Attribute1 = 5;
rootElement.Attribute2 = true;
Or simply load an XML from file like this:
RootElement rootElement = RootElement.Load(filePath);
Or save it like this:
rootElement.Save(string);
rootElement.Save(textWriter);
rootElement.Save(xmlWriter);
rootElement.Untyped also yields the element in form of a XElement (from LINQ to XML).
In the past I have created my XML Schema, then used a tool to generate C# classes which will serialize to that schema. The XML Schema Definition Tool is one example
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6c1kb0s(VS.71).aspx
XmlWriter is the fastest way to write good XML. XDocument, XMLDocument and some others works good aswell, but are not optimized for writing XML. If you want to write the XML as fast as possible, you should definitely use XmlWriter.
In the past I have created my XML Schema, then used a tool to generate C# classes which will serialize to that schema. The XML Schema Definition Tool is one example
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x6c1kb0s(VS.71).aspx
The best thing hands down that I have tried is LINQ to XSD (which is unknown to most developers). You give it an XSD Schema and it generates a perfectly mapped complete strongly-typed object model (based on LINQ to XML) for you in the background, which is really easy to work with - and it updates and validates your object model and XML in real-time. While it's still "Preview", I have not encountered any bugs with it.
If you have an XSD Schema that looks like this:
<xs:element name="RootElement">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Element1" type="xs:string" />
<xs:element name="Element2" type="xs:string" />
</xs:sequence>
<xs:attribute name="Attribute1" type="xs:integer" use="optional" />
<xs:attribute name="Attribute2" type="xs:boolean" use="required" />
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
Then you can simply build XML like this:
RootElement rootElement = new RootElement;
rootElement.Element1 = "Element1";
rootElement.Element2 = "Element2";
rootElement.Attribute1 = 5;
rootElement.Attribute2 = true;
Or simply load an XML from file like this:
RootElement rootElement = RootElement.Load(filePath);
Or save it like this:
rootElement.Save(string);
rootElement.Save(textWriter);
rootElement.Save(xmlWriter);
rootElement.Untyped also yields the element in form of a XElement (from LINQ to XML).
As above.
I use stringbuilder.append().
Very straightforward, and you can then do xmldocument.load(strinbuilder object as parameter).
You will probably find yourself using string.concat within the append parameter, but this is a very straightforward approach.
For simple things, I just use the XmlDocument/XmlNode/XmlAttribute classes and XmlDocument DOM found in System.XML.
It generates the XML for me, I just need to link a few items together.
However, on larger things, I use XML serialization.
I think this resource should suffice for a moderate XML save/load: Read/Write XML using C#.
My task was to store musical notation. I choose XML, because I guess .NET has matured enough to allow easy solution for the task. I was right :)
This is my song file prototype:
<music judul="Kupu-Kupu yang Lucu" pengarang="Ibu Sud" tempo="120" birama="4/4" nadadasar="1=F" biramapembilang="4" biramapenyebut="4">
<not angka="1" oktaf="0" naikturun="" nilai="1"/>
<not angka="2" oktaf="0" naikturun="" nilai="0.5"/>
<not angka="5" oktaf="1" naikturun="/" nilai="0.25"/>
<not angka="2" oktaf="0" naikturun="\" nilai="0.125"/>
<not angka="1" oktaf="0" naikturun="" nilai="0.0625"/>
</music>
That can be solved quite easily:
For Save to File:
private void saveToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
saveFileDialog1.Title = "Save Song File";
saveFileDialog1.Filter = "Song Files|*.xsong";
if (saveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(saveFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Create);
XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(fs, Encoding.UTF8);
w.WriteStartDocument();
w.WriteStartElement("music");
w.WriteAttributeString("judul", Program.music.getTitle());
w.WriteAttributeString("pengarang", Program.music.getAuthor());
w.WriteAttributeString("tempo", Program.music.getTempo()+"");
w.WriteAttributeString("birama", Program.music.getBirama());
w.WriteAttributeString("nadadasar", Program.music.getNadaDasar());
w.WriteAttributeString("biramapembilang", Program.music.getBiramaPembilang()+"");
w.WriteAttributeString("biramapenyebut", Program.music.getBiramaPenyebut()+"");
for (int i = 0; i < listNotasi.Count; i++)
{
CNot not = listNotasi[i];
w.WriteStartElement("not");
w.WriteAttributeString("angka", not.getNot() + "");
w.WriteAttributeString("oktaf", not.getOktaf() + "");
String naikturun="";
if(not.isTurunSetengah())naikturun="\\";
else if(not.isNaikSetengah())naikturun="/";
w.WriteAttributeString("naikturun",naikturun);
w.WriteAttributeString("nilai", not.getNilaiNot()+"");
w.WriteEndElement();
}
w.WriteEndElement();
w.Flush();
fs.Close();
}
}
For load file:
openFileDialog1.Title = "Open Song File";
openFileDialog1.Filter = "Song Files|*.xsong";
if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(openFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Open);
XmlTextReader r = new XmlTextReader(fs);
while (r.Read())
{
if (r.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
{
if (r.Name.ToLower().Equals("music"))
{
Program.music = new CMusic(r.GetAttribute("judul"),
r.GetAttribute("pengarang"),
r.GetAttribute("birama"),
Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("tempo")),
r.GetAttribute("nadadasar"),
Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("biramapembilang")),
Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("biramapenyebut")));
}
else
if (r.Name.ToLower().Equals("not"))
{
CNot not = new CNot(Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("angka")), Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("oktaf")));
if (r.GetAttribute("naikturun").Equals("/"))
{
not.setNaikSetengah();
}
else if (r.GetAttribute("naikturun").Equals("\\"))
{
not.setTurunSetengah();
}
not.setNilaiNot(Convert.ToSingle(r.GetAttribute("nilai")));
listNotasi.Add(not);
}
}
else
if (r.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text)
{
Console.WriteLine("\tVALUE: " + r.Value);
}
}
}
}
}
For simple things, I just use the XmlDocument/XmlNode/XmlAttribute classes and XmlDocument DOM found in System.XML.
It generates the XML for me, I just need to link a few items together.
However, on larger things, I use XML serialization.
I think this resource should suffice for a moderate XML save/load: Read/Write XML using C#.
My task was to store musical notation. I choose XML, because I guess .NET has matured enough to allow easy solution for the task. I was right :)
This is my song file prototype:
<music judul="Kupu-Kupu yang Lucu" pengarang="Ibu Sud" tempo="120" birama="4/4" nadadasar="1=F" biramapembilang="4" biramapenyebut="4">
<not angka="1" oktaf="0" naikturun="" nilai="1"/>
<not angka="2" oktaf="0" naikturun="" nilai="0.5"/>
<not angka="5" oktaf="1" naikturun="/" nilai="0.25"/>
<not angka="2" oktaf="0" naikturun="\" nilai="0.125"/>
<not angka="1" oktaf="0" naikturun="" nilai="0.0625"/>
</music>
That can be solved quite easily:
For Save to File:
private void saveToolStripMenuItem_Click(object sender, EventArgs e)
{
saveFileDialog1.Title = "Save Song File";
saveFileDialog1.Filter = "Song Files|*.xsong";
if (saveFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(saveFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Create);
XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(fs, Encoding.UTF8);
w.WriteStartDocument();
w.WriteStartElement("music");
w.WriteAttributeString("judul", Program.music.getTitle());
w.WriteAttributeString("pengarang", Program.music.getAuthor());
w.WriteAttributeString("tempo", Program.music.getTempo()+"");
w.WriteAttributeString("birama", Program.music.getBirama());
w.WriteAttributeString("nadadasar", Program.music.getNadaDasar());
w.WriteAttributeString("biramapembilang", Program.music.getBiramaPembilang()+"");
w.WriteAttributeString("biramapenyebut", Program.music.getBiramaPenyebut()+"");
for (int i = 0; i < listNotasi.Count; i++)
{
CNot not = listNotasi[i];
w.WriteStartElement("not");
w.WriteAttributeString("angka", not.getNot() + "");
w.WriteAttributeString("oktaf", not.getOktaf() + "");
String naikturun="";
if(not.isTurunSetengah())naikturun="\\";
else if(not.isNaikSetengah())naikturun="/";
w.WriteAttributeString("naikturun",naikturun);
w.WriteAttributeString("nilai", not.getNilaiNot()+"");
w.WriteEndElement();
}
w.WriteEndElement();
w.Flush();
fs.Close();
}
}
For load file:
openFileDialog1.Title = "Open Song File";
openFileDialog1.Filter = "Song Files|*.xsong";
if (openFileDialog1.ShowDialog() == DialogResult.OK)
{
FileStream fs = new FileStream(openFileDialog1.FileName, FileMode.Open);
XmlTextReader r = new XmlTextReader(fs);
while (r.Read())
{
if (r.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
{
if (r.Name.ToLower().Equals("music"))
{
Program.music = new CMusic(r.GetAttribute("judul"),
r.GetAttribute("pengarang"),
r.GetAttribute("birama"),
Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("tempo")),
r.GetAttribute("nadadasar"),
Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("biramapembilang")),
Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("biramapenyebut")));
}
else
if (r.Name.ToLower().Equals("not"))
{
CNot not = new CNot(Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("angka")), Convert.ToInt32(r.GetAttribute("oktaf")));
if (r.GetAttribute("naikturun").Equals("/"))
{
not.setNaikSetengah();
}
else if (r.GetAttribute("naikturun").Equals("\\"))
{
not.setTurunSetengah();
}
not.setNilaiNot(Convert.ToSingle(r.GetAttribute("nilai")));
listNotasi.Add(not);
}
}
else
if (r.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Text)
{
Console.WriteLine("\tVALUE: " + r.Value);
}
}
}
}
}
Source: Stackoverflow.com