December 2014
Intermediate to advanced
512 pages
17h 4m
English
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Writing to XML
Writing objects to XAML in XML form is a common activity. Because XamlObjectReader doesn’t support WPF-style objects, Listing 21.4 demonstrates converting from XML to XML by pairing up XamlXmlReader with XamlXmlWriter. This may sound nonsensical, but the combination produces a simple “XAML scrubber” that normalizes the input XML to produce consistently represented, consistently spaced XML with comments removed.
LISTING 21.4 A “XAML Scrubber” That Normalizes the Input XML
public static string RewriteXaml(string xmlString){ // String -> TextReader -> XamlXmlReader using (TextReader textReader = new StringReader(xmlString)) using (XamlXmlReader reader = new XamlXmlReader(textReader)) // TextWriter ...
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