XmlTextWriter & MemoryStream

[Random]

Why, oh why, won't my XmlTextWriter write properly to the MemoryStream. Or,
why can't I read the xml back out of the MemoryStream! I can't think of a
thing....

Dim reader As XmlReader

Dim stream As MemoryStream = New MemoryStream()
Dim writer As XmlWriter = New XmlTextWriter(stream, Encoding.UTF8)

writer.WriteStartDocument(True)
writer.WriteStartElement("fooitems")
writer.WriteElementString("foo", "myfoo")
writer.WriteEndElement()
writer.WriteEndDocument()

reader = New XmlTextReader(stream)
writer.Close()

reader.MoveToContent()
reader.ReadOuterXml()

After I run this, I get a 'Root Element is missing' error. I can't see that
anything ever gets into the stream.

 

[Samuel R. Neff]

After you write to the stream and before you read from it, set the
Position back to 0.

HTH,

Sam

 

[Random]

Thanks for the tip. I had been trying different scenarios with that as
well. Turns out I had to make three changes......

'after finishing the document with WriteEndDocument, I had to flush the
content to the stream, then reset the position
writer.Flush()
stream.Position = 0
'then, don't close the writer with Close()