LINQ To Xml how to generate xml without formatting

Question

Is there way to generate xml using linq to xml without any formatting (whitespaces, newlines etc.) and without saving to file, just in memory?

I am sending this xml to some api, and this is requirements. Now i am using string.Replace();

var doc = new XDocument(
            new XDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", null),
            new XElement("request",
                new XAttribute("version", "1.0"),
                new XElement("m",
                    new XElement("id", credentials.id),
                    new XElement("signature"), ""),
                new XElement("data",
                    new XElement("p",
                        new XAttribute("id", ""),
                        new XElement("porp",
                            new XAttribute("name", "c"),
                            new XAttribute("value", c)),
                        new XElement("porp",
                            new XAttribute("name", "a"),
                            new XAttribute("value", a))))));


        var data = doc.Element("request").Element("data").Elements();
        string result = string.Concat(data).Trim().Replace("\r\n", "").Replace("  ", "");
        var signature = Utils.ComputeSignature(result, credentials.Password);
        doc.Element("request").Element("m").Element("signature").Value = signature;
        return doc.ToString().Trim().Replace("\r\n", "").Replace("  ", "");

Thanks for any help!

Charles Mager · Accepted Answer · 2016-09-26 11:25:12Z

2

There are a few ways to achieve this, but the easiest is to use the overload for XNode.ToString where you can specify your SaveOptions:

doc.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);

edited Sep 26, 2016 at 11:25

answered Sep 26, 2016 at 10:42

Charles Mager

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Stas Petrov Over a year ago

Thx for your coment. I will use it in return whole document. But is there way to use it in concat?

Charles Mager Over a year ago

Not exactly, you should project your sequence of elements to a sequence of strings: ...Elements().Select(x => x.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting)).

Ivan Stoev Over a year ago

@StasPetrov Since it's a method of a base XNode class, you can use it inside the concat like string result = string.Concat(data.Select(e => e.ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting)));

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