Agreed.

This seems to be calling for a tranform.

Here is my "to text file" hint.


<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0" 
xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">
  <xsl:output method="text" />


The last line is the one of importance.

See my other post for a transform example.





"Pete Delgado" <Peter.Delgado@N...> wrote in message 
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> "Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@y...> wrote in message 
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>> Tom Woods wrote:
>>> Sorry for being so vague.  What I would like to do is to read the 
>>> XmlDocument line by line and add each line into a memo field.
>>>
>>> When I use the InnerXml, it's just one long string with no CR/LF.
>>>
>>> Can this be done?
>>
>> The XML APIs don't expose XML line by line, rather they expose nodes.
>> But you can of course use the normal file IO APIs to read line by line.
>>
>> And if InnerXml does not give you what you want then you might simply 
>> want to set PreserveWhitespace to true before you load your XML document:
>>
>>   XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
>>   doc.PreserveWhitespace = true;
>>   doc.Load("file.xml");
>>   // now doc.OuterXml/InnerXml has any white space the original document 
>> contains
>>
>
> Wouldn't it be far better and simpler to use XSLT to transform the XML 
> into the appropriate format?
>
> -Pete
>
>