Forcing XDocument.ToString() to include the closing tag when there is no data

Question

I have a XDocument that looks like this:

 XDocument outputDocument = new XDocument(
                new XElement(\"Document\",
                    new XEleme         


        

Answer 1

an issue using the XNode.DeepEquals when there is an empty tags, another way to compare all XML elements from XML documents (this should works even if the XML closing tags are different)

public bool CompareXml()
{
        var doc = @"
        
            General
            
              Aravind Kumar Eriventy
              
              9052534488
            
          ";

        var doc1 = @"
        
            General
            
              Aravind Kumar Eriventy
              
              9052534488
            
          ";

    return XmlDocCompare(XDocument.Parse(doc), XDocument.Parse(doc1));

}

private static bool XmlDocCompare(XDocument doc,XDocument doc1)
{
    IntroduceClosingBracket(doc.Root);
    IntroduceClosingBracket(doc1.Root);

    return XNode.DeepEquals(doc1, doc);
}

private static void IntroduceClosingBracket(XElement element)
{
    foreach (var descendant in element.DescendantsAndSelf())
    {
        if (descendant.IsEmpty)
        {
            descendant.SetValue(String.Empty);
        }
    }
}