How to Prepare Document programatically ?

XmlDocument/XmlDataDocument objects contains CreateElement and CreateAttribute methods that are used to add nodes to the XmlDocument object.

XmlElement Contains a property Attributes Property which is an XmlAttributeCollection . this is inhirets from XmlNamedNodeMap class

Demo:

Prepare xml document programmatic:

           XmlDocument xmldoc = new XmlDocument();

           xmldoc.AppendChild(xmldoc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"));

           XmlElement x=xmldoc.CreateElement("Root");

           

           XmlElement newjob = xmldoc.CreateElement("jobs"); // parent

           XmlElement jobid = xmldoc.CreateElement("job_ids");

           jobid.InnerText = txtJobid.Text;           

           XmlElement jobname = xmldoc.CreateElement("job_desc");

           jobname.InnerText = txtJobdesc.Text;

           XmlElement minsal = xmldoc.CreateElement("min_lvl");

           minsal.InnerText = txtminlvl.Text;

           XmlElement maxsal = xmldoc.CreateElement("max_lvl");

           maxsal.InnerText = txtmaxlvl.Text;

           newjob.AppendChild(jobid);

           newjob.AppendChild(jobname);

           newjob.AppendChild(minsal);

           newjob.AppendChild(maxsal);

           x.AppendChild(newjob);

           xmldoc.AppendChild(x);   // End the Root.                                          

           xmldoc.Save("C:\\jobs12345.xml");     // the the xml file to disk

           Label1.Text = "create xml document programmatically...";

How to add Attributes to xmlElements?

For adding Attributes to XmlElement we have a class is XmlAttribute class.

Ex:

Prepare xml document programmatic along with Attributes:

XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument();

myDoc.AppendChild(myDoc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"));

            //The Father

            XmlElement Father = myDoc.CreateElement("Father");

            //Create attributes

            XmlAttribute FatherName = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Name");

            XmlAttribute FatherAge = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Age");

            //Add values to attributes

            FatherName.Value = "My father";

            FatherAge.Value = "65";

            //Append attributes to their correspondent element

            Father.Attributes.Append(FatherName);

            Father.Attributes.Append(FatherAge);

            //Add the element to the Familie node

            Familie.AppendChild(Father);

            //The mother

            XmlElement Mother = myDoc.CreateElement("Mother");

            //Create attributes

            XmlAttribute MotherName = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Name");

            XmlAttribute MotherAge = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Age");

            //Add values to attributes

            MotherName.Value = "My mother";

            MotherAge.Value = "60";

            //Append attributes to their correspondent element

            Mother.Attributes.Append(MotherName);

            Mother.Attributes.Append(MotherAge);

            //Add the element to the Familie node

            Familie.AppendChild(Mother);

            //The sister

            XmlElement Sister = myDoc.CreateElement("Sister");

            //Create attributes

            XmlAttribute SisterName = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Name");

            XmlAttribute SisterAge = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Age");

            //Add values to attributes

            SisterName.Value = "My sister";

            SisterAge.Value = "20";

            //Append attributes to their correspondent element

            Sister.Attributes.Append(SisterName);

            Sister.Attributes.Append(SisterAge);

            //Add the element to the Familie node

            Familie.AppendChild(Sister);

            //The brother

            XmlElement Brother = myDoc.CreateElement("Brother");

            //Create attributes

            XmlAttribute BrotherName = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Name");

            XmlAttribute BrotherAge = myDoc.CreateAttribute("Age");

            //Add values to attributes

            BrotherName.Value = "My brother";

            BrotherAge.Value = "21";

            //Append attributes to their correspondent element

            Brother.Attributes.Append(BrotherName);

            Brother.Attributes.Append(BrotherAge);

            //Add the element to the Familie node

            Familie.AppendChild(Brother);

            //wrapp all elements nodes in wrapper node

myDoc.AppendChild(Familie);               myDoc.Save(@"C:\myFamilssie.xml");            Console.WriteLine("Document is generated successfully!!");

Note: Don’t write XmlAttributes for declaration of xml document .to specify declaration we have

XmlDocument myDoc = new XmlDocument();

myDoc.AppendChild(myDoc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"));

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