How can I generate XML with CR, instead of CRLF in XmlTextWriter

Question

I\'m generating XML via XmlTextWriter.

The file looks good to my eyes, validates (at wc3), and was accepted by the client.

But a client vendor is complainin

Answer 1

of course, moments after asking, I find a clue on MSDN (that I couldn't find via google) that refers to XmlWriterSettings.NewLineChars

which then led me to the unaccepted answer on SO: Writing XMLDocument to file with specific newline character (c#)

It's all in the terminology.....

Answer 2

Use the XmlWriterSettings to set what you want as your end of line char.

XmlWriterSettings mySettings = new XmlWriterSettings();
mySettings.NewLineChars = "\r";

XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(
                         new StreamWriter(@"c:\temp\hello.xml", mySettings);

I don't know where end of line characters would matter. I haven't run into it before.

Answer 3

Use the XmlWriterSettings.NewLineChars property.

Answer 4

What line ending is used should not matter to a properly implemented parser (see the spec), I quote (emphasis mine):

To simplify the tasks of applications, the XML processor must behave as if it normalized all line breaks in external parsed entities (including the document entity) on input, before parsing, by translating both the two-character sequence #xD #xA and any #xD that is not followed by #xA to a single #xA character.

Therefore, you should be fine with the way you have it right now. You might want to ask what the client vendor is actually doing there, chances are that they are Doing it Wrong.