XDocument.Declaration Property
[ This article is for Windows Phone 8 developers. If you’re developing for Windows 10, see the latest documentation. ]
Gets or sets the XML declaration for this document.
Assembly: System.Xml.Linq (in System.Xml.Linq.dll)
Property Value
Type: System.Xml.Linq.XDeclarationAn XDeclaration that contains the XML declaration for this document.
Sometimes you have to create an XML declaration for a document. If you want to indicate that a document is standalone, you must use this property. If you want to encode your document with an encoding other than utf-8, you can specify an encoding through the XDeclaration. Another approach for encoding a document is to specify the encoding on an XmlWriter that you pass to LINQ to XML for writing.