On Jul 20, 5:39=A0am, Martin Honnen <mahotr...@yahoo.de> wrote:
>
> The .NET framework allows you to create an XML fragment by setting
> =A0 =A0settings.ConformanceLevel =3D ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
> on your XmlWriterSettings variable. That way you should be able to write
> out serveral DecoratedPerson elements. You should however be aware that
> you can't read the generated XML with XmlDocument or XDocument as these
> implement the W3C specification for well-formed XML documents to have
> exactly one root element that contains all other elements.
> XmlReader on the other hand can also be set in "fragment mode" with an
> XmlReaderSettings instance and the same ConformanceLevel setting.
>

I thank you for your time.  I am able to generate fragments, but like
you say they miss the "exactly one root element".

Can you post, in pseudo-code or words, how to generate a root element
programically once you have nodes (fragments)?

Let's say you have these node fragments:

<Person>
<FirstName> joe </FirstName>
<LastName> smith </LastName>
</Person>

<Person>
<FirstName> Sam </FirstName>
<LastName> Miller </LastName>
</Person>

In one file, now how can you add a root element in an easy way?

Such as

<?xml version=3D"1.0" ?>
<MyRootElementHere>

// above 2 nodes go here

</MyRootElementHere>

I can do this the "hard way" by mechanically inserting text into
another text file, but I'm wondering if there's a quick way to convert
fragments into well formed XML documents (there should be--this must
be a reoccuring common problem).

Unless there is an easy way to do this, I am going back to using DOM
and "TextWriter", etc, node by node, which at least I am able to form
well formed XML documents (but it's tedious to do).

RL