I\'m using C# to output an xml file and Im trying to set the xml encoding value to UTF-8 but its currently outputting:
<
Your code does not compile -- StringWriterWithEncoding
does not have a parameterless constructor. Or, if it does have a parameterless constructor, maybe it actually looks like this?
public sealed class StringWriterWithEncoding : StringWriter
{
private readonly Encoding encoding;
public StringWriterWithEncoding() { }
public StringWriterWithEncoding(Encoding encoding)
{
this.encoding = encoding;
}
public override Encoding Encoding
{
get { return encoding; }
}
}
If so, that would explain your problem - the field encoding
has been left at its default (null) value, meaning Encoding
returns null, and so no encoding will appear in the XML file.
To fix it, eliminate the parameterless constructor, and do:
var sw = new StringWriterWithEncoding(Encoding.UTF8);
Or change the parameterless constructor to explicitly set Encoding.UTF8
:
public sealed class StringWriterWithEncoding : StringWriter
{
private readonly Encoding encoding;
public StringWriterWithEncoding() : this(Encoding.UTF8) { }
public StringWriterWithEncoding(Encoding encoding)
{
this.encoding = encoding;
}
public override Encoding Encoding
{
get { return encoding; }
}
}
Just use the output file name for the XmlWriter instead of the StringWriterWithEncoding:
var settings = new XmlWriterSettings
{
Encoding = Encoding.UTF8,
Indent = true
};
using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(filePathName, settings))
{
...