Removing version from xml file

c# xml version xmlwriter

viky · Dec 30, 2009 · Viewed 14.6k times · Source

I am creating a Xml like format using XmlWriter. But in the output there is version information also.

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

I don't need this in my file. How can I do that? Is there any way to remove it by code?

Answer

Use the ConformanceLevel and OmitXmlDeclaration properties. Example:

XmlWriter w;
w.Settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
w.Settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Fragment;
w.Settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;