xmlreader newline \n instead of \r\n

Question

When I use XmlReader.ReadOuterXml(), elements are separated by \n instead of \r\n. So, for example, if I have XmlDocument representatino of

<A>
<B>
</B>
</A>

I get

<A>\n<B>\n</B>\n</A>

Is there an option to specify newline character? XmlWriterSettings has it but XmlReader doesn't seem to have this.

Here is my code to read xml. Note that XmlWriterSettings by default has NewLineHandling = Replace

XmlDocument xmlDocument = <Generate some XmlDocument>
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;

// Use a memory stream because it accepts UTF8 characters.  If we use a 
// string builder the XML will be UTF16.
using (MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream())
{
    using (XmlWriter xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(memStream, settings))
    {
        xmlDocument.Save(xmlWriter);
    }

    //Set the pointer back to the beginning of the stream to be read
    memStream.Position = 0;
    using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create(memStream))
    {
        reader.Read();
        string header = reader.Value;
        reader.MoveToContent();
        return "<?xml " + header + " ?>" + Environment.NewLine + reader.ReadOuterXml();
    }
}

Answer 1

XmlReader will automatically normalize \r\n\ to \n. Although this seems unusual on Windows, it is actually required by the XML Specification (http://www.w3.org/TR/2008/REC-xml-20081126/#sec-line-ends).

You can do a String.Replace:

string s = reader.ReadOuterXml().Replace("\n", "\r\n");