Pro LINQ: Language Integrated Query in C# 2008

XML Output

Of course, creating, modifying, and deleting XML data does no good if you cannot persist the changes. This section contains a few ways to output your XML.

Saving with XDocument.Save()

You can save your XML document using any of several XDocument.Save methods. Here is a list of prototypes:

void XDocument.Save(string filename);
void XDocument.Save(TextWriter textWriter);
void XDocument.Save(XmlWriter writer);
void XDocument.Save(string filename, SaveOptions options);
void XDocument.Save(TextWriter textWriter, SaveOptions options);

Listing 7-36 is an example where I save the XML document to a file in my project's folder.

Example. Saving a Document with the XDocument.Save Method

XDocument xDocument = new XDocument( new XElement("BookParticipants", ...