Hi,

I’m using xmlwriter to create an xml document. The xml document looks like this:

How can i prevent the /> and appropriately end the root node?

Because of this, i can’t append anything to the root node.

My code for creating the xml file looks like this:

string formatDate = DateTime.Now.ToString("d-MMM-yyyy");

XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(xmlfileName, Encoding.UTF8);

xmlWriter.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;
xmlWriter.Indentation = 3;
xmlWriter.WriteStartDocument();

xmlWriter.WriteStartElement("ExceptionsList"); // ExceptionsList (Root) Element

xmlWriter.WriteEndElement(); // End of ExceptionsList (Root) Element

xmlWriter.WriteEndDocument();

xmlWriter.Flush();
xmlWriter.Close();

And I append to the root node like this:

XDocument xml = XDocument.Load(xmlFileName);
XElement root = xml.Root;

root.Add(new XElement("Exception",
    new XElement("Exception Type", exceptionType),
    new XElement("Exception Message", exceptionMessage),
        new XElement("InnerException", innerException),
    new XElement("Comment", comment)));

xml.Save(xmlFileName);

This gives me a stackoverflow at runtime error too.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

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