I am trying to insert data in existing XMl file. I have the following code.
string file = MapPath("~/XMLFile1.xml");
XDocument doc;
//Verify whether a file is exists or not
if (!System.IO.File.Exists(file))
{
doc = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "UTF-8", "yes"),
new System.Xml.Linq.XElement("Contacts"));
}
else
{
doc = XDocument.Load(file);
}
foreach (var c in MyContactsLst)
{
//var contactsElement = new XElement("Contacts",
var contactsElement = new XElement("Contact",
new XElement("Name", c.FirstOrDefault().DisplayName),
new XElement("PhoneNumber", c.FirstOrDefault().PhoneNumber.ToString()),
new XElement("Email", "abc#abc.com"));
doc.Root.Add(contactsElement);
doc.Save(file);
}
The first issue is in first line of code i.e. MapPath("~/XMLFile1.xml"); It gives me an error
The name 'MapPath' does not exist in the current context
The second issue is in doc.Save(file); It gives me an error
The best overloaded method match for 'System.Xml.Linq.XDocument.Save(System.IO.Stream)' has some invalid arguments
I have refer this question How to insert data into an existing xml file in asp.net?
I am learning XML. So, how can I solve this?
The reason why MapPath does not exist in the current context is because it is a method of HttpServerUtility class, and as far as I know, it is not supported on Windows Phone.
Try loading the XDocument like this:
XDocument xdocument = XDocument.Load("XMLFile1.xml");
EDIT: You were having an error saving the document. Here is an answer from a related thread:
using (var storage = IsolatedStorageFile.GetUserStoreForApplication())
{
using (Stream stream = storage.CreateFile("data.xml"))
{
doc.Save(stream);
}
}
Adding onto Kajzer's answer, here is another alternative that may be easier to grasp and use for saving an XDocument:
string path = "[some path]";
using (Stream stream = File.Create(path))
{
doc.Save(stream);
}
There is just one using statement, and you'll only need the System.IO class as it provides both the Stream and File classes for you to use - making this the most straightforward and easiest to understand solution.
Related
I'm trying to edit xml file.
but document.Save() method has to use another file name.
Is there any way to use same file? or other method. Thank you!
string path = "test.xml";
using (FileStream xmlFile = File.OpenRead(path))
{
XDocument document = XDocument.Load(xmlFile);
var setupEl = document.Root;
var groupEl = setupEl.Elements().ElementAt(0);
var valueEl = groupEl.Elements().ElementAt(1);
valueEl.Value = "Test2";
document.Save("test-result.xml");
// document.Save("test.xml"); I want to use this line.
}
I receive the error:
The process cannot access the file '[...]\test.xml' because it is being used by another process.
The problem is that you are trying to write to the file while you still have it open. However, you have no need to have it open once you've loaded the XML file. Simply scoping your code more granularly will solve the issue:
string path = "test.xml";
XDocument document;
using (FileStream xmlFile = File.OpenRead(path))
{
document = XDocument.Load(xmlFile);
}
// the rest of your code
I created an application for Android in Xamarin.I open an xml file ,then I save the changes. I need to close it but xmldocument has not any option to do that.
How can I close the file? I really need to do this because on other activity I want to modify it and it says :"Sharing violation on path"
If you're using the XmlDocument.Save just put a using around the TextWriter should do it:
var doc = new XmlDocument();
var filePath = "myXmlFile.xml";
doc.Load(filePath);
using (var writer = new StreamWriter(filePath))
{
doc.Save(writer);
}
I have an XML file with no root. I cannot change this. I am trying to parse it, but XDocument.Load won't do it. I have tried to set ConformanceLevel.Fragment, but I still get an exception thrown. Does anyone have a solution to this?
I tried with XmlReader, but things are messed up and can't get it work right. XDocument.Load works great, but if I have a file with multiple roots, it doesn't.
XmlReader itself does support reading of xml fragment - i.e.
var settings = new XmlReaderSettings { ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment };
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create("fragment.xml", settings))
{
// you can work with reader just fine
}
However XDocument.Load does not support reading of fragmented xml.
Quick and dirty way is to wrap the nodes under one virtual root before you invoke the XDocument.Parse. Like:
var fragments = File.ReadAllText("fragment.xml");
var myRootedXml = "<root>" + fragments + "</root>";
var doc = XDocument.Parse(myRootedXml);
This approach is limited to small xml files - as you have to read file into memory first; and concatenating large string means moving large objects in memory - which is best avoided.
If performance matters you should be reading nodes into XDocument one-by-one via XmlReader as explained in excellent #Martin-Honnen 's answer (https://stackoverflow.com/a/18203952/2440262)
If you use API that takes for granted that XmlReader iterates over valid xml, and performance matters, you can use joined-stream approach instead:
using (var jointStream = new MultiStream())
using (var openTagStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("<root>"), false))
using (var fileStream =
File.Open(#"fragment.xml", FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
using (var closeTagStream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes("</root>"), false))
{
jointStream.AddStream(openTagStream);
jointStream.AddStream(fileStream);
jointStream.AddStream(closeTagStream);
using (var reader = XmlReader.Create(jointStream))
{
// now you can work with reader as if it is reading valid xml
}
}
MultiStream - see for example https://gist.github.com/svejdo1/b9165192d313ed0129a679c927379685
Note: XDocument loads the whole xml into memory. So don't use it for large files - instead use XmlReader for iteration and load just the crispy bits as XElement via XNode.ReadFrom(...)
The only in-memory tree representations in the .NET framework that can deal with fragments are the XmlDocumentFragment in .NET's DOM implementation so you would need to create an XmlDocument and a fragment with e.g.
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlDocumentFragment frag = doc.CreateDocumentFragment();
frag.InnerXml = stringWithXml; // for instance
// frag.InnerXml = File.ReadAllText("fragment.xml");
or is XPathDocument where you can create one using an XmlReader with ConformanceLevel set to Fragment:
XPathDocument doc;
using (XmlReader xr =
XmlReader.Create("fragment.xml",
new XmlReaderSettings()
{
ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment
}))
{
doc = new XPathDocument(xr);
}
// new create XPathNavigator for read out data e.g.
XPathNavigator nav = doc.CreateNavigator();
Obviously XPathNavigator is read-only.
If you want to use LINQ to XML then I agree with the suggestions made that you need to create an XElement as a wrapper. Instead of pulling in a string with the file contents you could however use XNode.ReadFrom with an XmlReader e.g.
public static class MyExtensions
{
public static IEnumerable<XNode> ParseFragment(XmlReader xr)
{
xr.MoveToContent();
XNode node;
while (!xr.EOF && (node = XNode.ReadFrom(xr)) != null)
{
yield return node;
}
}
}
then
XElement root = new XElement("root",
MyExtensions.ParseFragment(XmlReader.Create(
"fragment.xml",
new XmlReaderSettings() {
ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment })));
That might work better and more efficiently than reading everything into a string.
If you wanted to use XmlDocument.Load() then you would need to wrap the content in a root node.
or you could try something like this...
while (xmlReader.Read())
{
if (xmlReader.NodeType == XmlNodeType.Element)
{
XmlDocument d = new XmlDocument();
d.CreateElement().InnerText = xmlReader.ReadOuterXml();
}
}
XML document cannot have more than one root elements. One root element is required. You may do one thing. Get all the fragment elements and wrap them into a root element and parse it with XDocument.
This would be the best and easiest approach that one could think of.
In C# am trying to check to see if an XML file is created, if not create the file and then create the xml declaration, a comment and a parent node.
When I try to load it, it gives me this error:
"The process cannot access the file 'C:\FileMoveResults\Applications.xml' because it is being used by another process."
I checked the task manager to ensure it wasn't open and sure enough there were no open applications of it. Any ideas of what's going on?
Here is the code I am using:
//check for the xml file
if (!File.Exists(GlobalVars.strXMLPath))
{
//create the xml file
File.Create(GlobalVars.strXMLPath);
//create the structure
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(GlobalVars.strXMLPath);
//create the xml declaration
XmlDeclaration xdec = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", null, null);
//create the comment
XmlComment xcom = doc.CreateComment("This file contains all the apps, versions, source and destination paths.");
//create the application parent node
XmlNode newApp = doc.CreateElement("applications");
//save
doc.Save(GlobalVars.strXMLPath);
Here is the code I ended up using to fix this issue:
//check for the xml file
if (!File.Exists(GlobalVars.strXMLPath))
{
using (XmlWriter xWriter = XmlWriter.Create(GlobalVars.strXMLPath))
{
xWriter.WriteStartDocument();
xWriter.WriteComment("This file contains all the apps, versions, source and destination paths.");
xWriter.WriteStartElement("application");
xWriter.WriteFullEndElement();
xWriter.WriteEndDocument();
}
File.Create() returns a FileStream that locks the file until it's closed.
You don't need to call File.Create() at all; doc.Save() will create or overwrite the file.
I would suggest something like this:
string filePath = "C:/myFilePath";
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
if (System.IO.File.Exists(filePath))
{
doc.Load(filePath);
}
else
{
using (XmlWriter xWriter = XmlWriter.Create(filePath))
{
xWriter.WriteStartDocument();
xWriter.WriteStartElement("Element Name");
xWriter.WriteEndElement();
xWriter.WriteEndDocument();
}
//OR
XmlDeclaration xdec = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", null, null);
XmlComment xcom = doc.CreateComment("This file contains all the apps, versions, source and destination paths.");
XmlNode newApp = doc.CreateElement("applications");
XmlNode newApp = doc.CreateElement("applications1");
XmlNode newApp = doc.CreateElement("applications2");
doc.Save(filePath); //save a copy
}
The reason your code is currently having problems is because of: File.Create creates the file and opens the stream to the file, and then you never make use of it (never close it) on this line:
//create the xml file
File.Create(GlobalVars.strXMLPath);
if you did something like
//create the xml file
using(Stream fStream = File.Create(GlobalVars.strXMLPath)) { }
Then you would not get that in use exception.
As a side note XmlDocument.Load will not create a file, only work with an already create one
You could create a stream, setting the FileMode to FileMode.Create and then use the stream to save the Xml to the path specified.
using (System.IO.Stream stream = new System.IO.FileStream(GlobalVars.strXMLPath, FileMode.Create))
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
...
doc.Save(stream);
}
I am trying to manipulate the XML of a Word 2007 document in C#. I have managed to find and manipulate the node that I want but now I can't seem to figure out how to save it back. Here is what I am trying:
// Open the document from memoryStream
Package pkgFile = Package.Open(memoryStream, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.ReadWrite);
PackageRelationshipCollection pkgrcOfficeDocument = pkgFile.GetRelationshipsByType(strRelRoot);
foreach (PackageRelationship pkgr in pkgrcOfficeDocument)
{
if (pkgr.SourceUri.OriginalString == "/")
{
Uri uriData = new Uri("/word/document.xml", UriKind.Relative);
PackagePart pkgprtData = pkgFile.GetPart(uriData);
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(pkgprtData.GetStream());
NameTable nt = new NameTable();
XmlNamespaceManager nsManager = new XmlNamespaceManager(nt);
nsManager.AddNamespace("w", nsUri);
XmlNodeList nodes = doc.SelectNodes("//w:body/w:p/w:r/w:t", nsManager);
foreach (XmlNode node in nodes)
{
if (node.InnerText == "{{TextToChange}}")
{
node.InnerText = "success";
}
}
if (pkgFile.PartExists(uriData))
{
// Delete template "/customXML/item1.xml" part
pkgFile.DeletePart(uriData);
}
PackagePart newPkgprtData = pkgFile.CreatePart(uriData, "application/xml");
StreamWriter partWrtr = new StreamWriter(newPkgprtData.GetStream(FileMode.Create, FileAccess.Write));
doc.Save(partWrtr);
partWrtr.Close();
}
}
pkgFile.Close();
I get the error 'Memory stream is not expandable'. Any ideas?
I would recommend that you use Open XML SDK instead of hacking the format by yourself.
Using OpenXML SDK 2.0, I do this:
public void SearchAndReplace(Dictionary<string, string> tokens)
{
using (WordprocessingDocument doc = WordprocessingDocument.Open(_filename, true))
ProcessDocument(doc, tokens);
}
private string GetPartAsString(OpenXmlPart part)
{
string text = String.Empty;
using (StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(part.GetStream()))
{
text = sr.ReadToEnd();
}
return text;
}
private void SavePart(OpenXmlPart part, string text)
{
using (StreamWriter sw = new StreamWriter(part.GetStream(FileMode.Create)))
{
sw.Write(text);
}
}
private void ProcessDocument(WordprocessingDocument doc, Dictionary<string, string> tokenDict)
{
ProcessPart(doc.MainDocumentPart, tokenDict);
foreach (var part in doc.MainDocumentPart.HeaderParts)
{
ProcessPart(part, tokenDict);
}
foreach (var part in doc.MainDocumentPart.FooterParts)
{
ProcessPart(part, tokenDict);
}
}
private void ProcessPart(OpenXmlPart part, Dictionary<string, string> tokenDict)
{
string docText = GetPartAsString(part);
foreach (var keyval in tokenDict)
{
Regex expr = new Regex(_starttag + keyval.Key + _endtag);
docText = expr.Replace(docText, keyval.Value);
}
SavePart(part, docText);
}
From this you could write a GetPartAsXmlDocument, do what you want with it, and then stream it back with SavePart(part, xmlString).
Hope this helps!
You should use the OpenXML SDK to work on docx files and not write your own wrapper.
Getting Started with the Open XML SDK 2.0 for Microsoft Office
Introducing the Office (2007) Open XML File Formats
How to: Manipulate Office Open XML Formats Documents
Manipulate Docx with C# without Microsoft Word installed with OpenXML SDK
The problem appears to be doc.Save(partWrtr), which is built using newPkgprtData, which is built using pkgFile, which loads from a memory stream... Because you loaded from a memory stream it's trying to save the document back to that same memory stream. This leads to the error you are seeing.
Instead of saving it to the memory stream try saving it to a new file or to a new memory stream.
The short and simple answer to the issue with getting 'Memory stream is not expandable' is:
Do not open the document from memoryStream.
So in that respect the earlier answer is correct, simply open a file instead.
Opening from MemoryStream editing the document (in my experience) easy lead to 'Memory stream is not expandable'.
I suppose the message appears when one do edits that requires the memory stream to expand.
I have found that I can do some edits but not anything that add to the size.
So, f.ex deleting a custom xml part is ok but adding one and some data is not.
So if you actually need to open a memory stream you must figure out how to open an expandable MemoryStream if you want to add to it.
I have a need for this and hope to find a solution.
Stein-Tore Erdal
PS: just noticed the answer from "Jan 26 '11 at 15:18".
Don't think that is the answer in all situations.
I get the error when trying this:
var ms = new MemoryStream(bytes);
using (WordprocessingDocument wd = WordprocessingDocument.Open(ms, true))
{
...
using (MemoryStream msData = new MemoryStream())
{
xdoc.Save(msData);
msData.Position = 0;
ourCxp.FeedData(msData); // Memory stream is not expandable.