Beginning XML with C# 7: XML Processing and Data Access for C# Developers

Creating a Custom XmlReader and XmlWriter

In Chapter 3 , you learned about the XmlReader and XmlWriter classes. The abstract classes XmlReader and XmlWriter can be used in three ways:

• To call the Create() method of the respective classes that return an instance of the generic XmlReader or XmlWriter classes

• To use the concrete classes XmlTextReader and XmlTextWriter provided by the .NET Framework

• To create custom classes that inherit from the XmlReader and XmlWriter classes

You are already familiar with the first two approaches. In the following sections, you are going to learn how to create custom readers and writers from the abstract base classes XmlReader and XmlWriter .

Creating a Custom XmlReader

In this section, you will create a custom ...