Concatenate xml files

Re: Concatenate xml files



sham wrote:

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> Is it possible with the .net framework to concatenate xml files?
>
> I have a number of xml files on disk and want to create one file which will
> have the format :
>
> <files>
> <file filename="a.xml " directory="c:\d ata\">
> xml contents of file a.xml go here
> </file>
> <file filename="b.xml " directory="c:\d ata\">
> xml contents of file a.xml go here
> </file>
> ...
> </files>[/color]

What you want to do there is not possible in general, imagine any of
those XML documents has an XML declaration and/or a !DOCTYPE
declaration, if you simply copied the complete XML markup inside of
<file>
</file>
then the result is not well-formed.
So you need to be more specific on what exactly you want to copy
(perhaps the root element?), then it is certainly possible to use
various .NET tools like XmlReader/Writer or XSLT to construct your
result document.



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