XmlTextWriter.Indentation Property
Gets or sets how many IndentChars to write for each level in the hierarchy when Formatting is set to Formatting.Indented.
Assembly: System.Xml (in System.Xml.dll)
| Exception | Condition |
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| ArgumentException | Setting this property to a negative value. |
 Note |
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In the .NET Framework 2.0 release, the recommended practice is to create XmlWriter instances using the XmlWriter.Create method and the XmlWriterSettings class. This allows you to take full advantage of all the new features introduced in this release. For more information, see Creating XML Writers. |
Indentation is performed on following node types: DocumentType, Element, Comment, ProcessingInstruction, and CDATASection. All other node types are not affected. The XmlTextWriter does not indent the internal DTD subset. However, you could do the following to apply formatting to the internal DTD subset.
String name = "Employees";
String pubid = null;
String sysid = null;
String subset =
@"
<!ELEMENT Employees (Employee)+>
<!ELEMENT Employee EMPTY>
<!ATTLIST Employee firstname CDATA #REQUIRED>
<!ENTITY Company 'Microsoft'>]>
";
XmlTextWriter tw = new XmlTextWriter(Console.Out);
tw.WriteDocType(name, pubid, sysid, subset);
The following example writes an XML fragment.
using System; using System.IO; using System.Xml; public class Sample { public static void Main() { //Create a writer to write XML to the console. XmlTextWriter writer = null; writer = new XmlTextWriter (Console.Out); //Use indentation for readability. writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; writer.Indentation = 4; //Write an element (this one is the root). writer.WriteStartElement("book"); //Write the title element. writer.WriteStartElement("title"); writer.WriteString("Pride And Prejudice"); writer.WriteEndElement(); //Write the close tag for the root element. writer.WriteEndElement(); //Write the XML to file and close the writer. writer.Close(); } }
Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7, Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008 (Server Core Role not supported), Windows Server 2008 R2 (Server Core Role supported with SP1 or later; Itanium not supported)
The .NET Framework does not support all versions of every platform. For a list of the supported versions, see .NET Framework System Requirements.
