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    <p>I have an XmlWriter as follows</p> <pre><code>XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings(); settings.Indent = true; settings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Entitize; using (XmlWriter currentWriter = XmlWriter.Create(filePath, settings)) { workingXmlDocument.WriteTo(currentWriter); currentWriter.Flush(); } // using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(FilePath)) </code></pre> <p>I have programmatically created an Xml Document that I am trying to write with this, and it is writting just fine, except that I have a block of elements that are created in a loop and it is putting all these elements onto one line. If you need to see any other code from the program let me know and I can put it here. I welcome any ideas even if they aren't full solutions.</p> <p><strong>Update - the complete method where the problem is happening</strong></p> <pre><code>private void XMLReaderUtil(string filePath) { XDocument workingXmlDocument; using (XmlReader currentReader = XmlReader.Create(filePath)) { workingXmlDocument = XDocument.Load(currentReader); foreach (KeyValuePair&lt;string, string&gt; currentIteration in logDataRaw) { FileInfo currentEntry = new FileInfo(currentIteration.Value); string testString = currentEntry.Directory.Name; if (testString.Contains(" ")) { testString = testString.Replace(" ", "_"); } IEnumerable&lt;XElement&gt; list = from XElement e in workingXmlDocument.Descendants(wixNS + testString) select e; DirectoryInfo temp = currentEntry.Directory; while (list.Count() == 0 &amp;&amp; !temp.Name.Contains(":")) { testString = temp.Name; if (testString.Contains(" ")) { testString = testString.Replace(" ", "_"); } list = from XElement e in workingXmlDocument.Descendants(wixNS + testString) select e; temp = temp.Parent; } // while (list.Count() == 0 &amp;&amp; !temp.Name.Contains(":")) if (list.Count() == 0) { IEnumerable&lt;XElement&gt; targetDirectory = from XElement e in workingXmlDocument.Descendants(wixNS + "Directory") where e.Attribute("Id").Value == "TARGETDIR" select e; var outXml = new XElement("root"); foreach (var item in targetDirectory) { item.Add(new XElement( "Directory", new XAttribute("new", 1))); outXml.Add(item); } outXml.Save(@"c:\users\adkins\desktop\temp.wxs", SaveOptions.None); } } // foreach (KeyValuePair&lt;string, string&gt; kvp in xmlDataChanged) // return workingXmlDocument; } // using (XmlReader sr = XmlReader.Create(FilePath)) IEnumerable&lt;XElement&gt; cleanup = from XElement e in workingXmlDocument.Descendants(wixNS + "Directory") select e; Collection&lt;string&gt; keep = new Collection&lt;string&gt;(); XElement[] blah; blah = cleanup.ToArray(); for (int i = 0; i &lt; blah.Length; i++) { if (!keep.Contains(blah[i].Attribute("Id").Value)) { keep.Add(blah[i].Attribute("Id").Value); } else { blah[i].Remove(); } } workingXmlDocument.Save(filePath, SaveOptions.None); // XMLWriter attempt //XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings(); //settings.Indent = true; //settings.IndentChars = "\t"; //settings.NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.Entitize; //settings.NewLineChars = "\n"; //settings.CloseOutput = true; //settings.Encoding = System.Text.Encoding.UTF8; //using (XmlWriter currentWriter = XmlWriter.Create(filePath, settings)) //{ // workingXmlDocument.WriteTo(currentWriter); // currentWriter.Flush(); //} // using (XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(FilePath)) //TextWriter test run - nothing changed //XmlTextWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(filePath, System.Text.Encoding.UTF8); //writer.Formatting = Formatting.Indented; //writer.IndentChar = '\t'; //writer.Indentation = 1; //workingXmlDocument.WriteTo(writer); //writer.Flush(); //writer.Close(); } </code></pre> <p>Here is the complete problem method. It includes my attempts at various forms of saving the file. It is a complete mess due to my efforts to solve this problem and problems that I encountered before getting to this one. Any help would be greatly appreciated!</p> <p>The variable "logDataRaw" is a dictionary containing the name of a file and the path to where it is stored. If you need any other clarification please let me know.</p>
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    1. COYes, please post you code that makes this "I have a block of elements that are created in a loop and it is putting all these elements onto one line"
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    2. COSo part of it is showing up correctly and part of it is not? Normally to fix my XML indentions I honestly load it up in VS and click the format all button. That being said, if the XML is going to be read by a computer, you save bytes by removing the whitespace.
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    3. COAside: You should make sure you set `XmlWriterSettings.CloseOutput` to `true` so that when the writer is disposed, it closes the file.
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