how to give encoding as ISO-8859-1 in xml created using LINQ

Question

I have to create an xml file which has encoding as

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

Currently the xml I am creating using LINQ is having tag as

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

how can I do this using LINQ only.

Linq is to do queries, not to write XML. So, as you ask for a "Linq only" method to do it, the answer is: There is no way to do it. — Mare Infinitus, Jun 10 '14 at 11:08
@MareInfinitus: I believe this question is about _LINQ to XML_ which indeed can be used to write XML, and I have changed the tags accordingly. — Martin Liversage, Jun 10 '14 at 11:10

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 10 '14 at 10:57

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You should use XDeclaration:

var d = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "ISO-8859-1", ""), new XElement("Root",
    new XElement("Child1", "data1"),
    new XElement("Child2", "data2")
 ));

answered Jun 10 '14 at 10:57

Uriil

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Interestingly, this does indeed work with `XDocument.Save(fileName)` which must infer the encoding to use if an `XDeclaration` is present. – Martin Liversage Jun 10 '14 at 11:08

Martin Liversage · Answer 2 · 2014-06-10T11:10:51.917

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You can save the XDocument to a StreamWriter having the desired encoding:

var xDocument = new XDocument(new XElement("root"));
var encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding("iso-8859-1");
using (var fileStream = File.Create("... file name ..."))
  using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(fileStream, encoding))
    xDocument.Save(streamWriter);

edited Jun 10 '14 at 11:10

answered Jun 10 '14 at 10:59

Martin Liversage

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jun 10 '14 at 11:06

If you are using XMLDcoument, then you can do so like below:

        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
        XmlDeclaration declaration = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration("1.0", "ISO-8859-1", null);
        doc.AppendChild(declaration);
        var node = doc.CreateNode(XmlNodeType.Element, "Root", "");
        doc.AppendChild(node);
        doc.Save("TestDoc.xml");

how to give encoding as ISO-8859-1 in xml created using LINQ

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