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 will automatically normalize \r\n\ to \n. Although this seems unusual on Windows, it is actually required by the XML Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-line-ends).

You can do a String.Replace:

string s = reader.ReadOuterXml().Replace("\n", "\r\n");