How do you force explicit tag closing with Linq XML?

Question

This is the same question as: Explicit Element Closing Tags with System.Xml.Linq Namespace

but I use Net 4.0 and the answers do not work anymore.

The problem i

Answer 1

I can't reproduce your error. This works as expected in both 4.0 and 3.5 netFX:

namespace ExplicitXmlClosingTags
{
    using System.Xml;
    using System.Xml.Linq;

    class Program
    {
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            const string ElementRoot = "RootElement";
            const string ElementChild = "ChildElement";
            const string AttributeChild = "ChildAttribute";

            XDocument xDoc = new XDocument();
            XElement root = new XElement(ElementRoot);
            XElement child = new XElement(ElementChild, string.Empty);
            root.Add(child);

            child.SetAttributeValue(AttributeChild, "AttrValue");
            xDoc.Add(root);

            XmlWriterSettings xws = new XmlWriterSettings();
            xws.Indent = true;
            using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create("out.xml", xws))
            {
                xDoc.Save(xw);    
            }
        }
    }
}

producing following content: