xmlreader newline \n instead of \r\n

Question

When I use XmlReader.ReadOuterXml(), elements are separated by \\n instead of \\r\\n. So, for example, if I have XmlDocument representatino of

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Answer 1

XmlReader reads files, not writes them. If you are getting \n in your reader it is because that's what's in the file. Both \n and \r are whitespace and are semantically the same in XML, it will not affect the meaning or content of the data.

Edit:

That looks like C#, not Ruby. As binarycoder says, ReadOuterXml is defined to return normalized XML. Typically this is what you want. If you want the raw XML you should use Encoding.UTF8.GetString(memStream.ToArray()), not XmlReader.