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I was wondering: is there a way to create HTML files programmatically in C# as you can do with XML? Mine is a console application, so maybe some of the options are not available. Basically, I would like to do something smarter than just building a big string.
Possible scenario:
Instead of writing:
string html="<html><head>Blah</head><body>{0}</html>", myotherstring
I would like to work as in XML
XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(xml_file_path + xml_file_name,
System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);
w.WriteProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'");
// construct xml
XmlElement root = xmlDoc.CreateElement("element");
...
xmlDoc.Save(w);
w.Close();
Apologies for the naive question.
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Don't forget: You can generate XHTML just as easily as plain XML using the XmlTextWriter approach.
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You could use NVelocity. It is a .Net port of the Java Velocity templating system. The API will not be similar to XmlWriter. Instead, you'll write a text file in a simple scripting language, put your objects into a 'context' and then merge the template and the context to generate the HTML file.
NVelocity
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You could use some third party open-source libraries to generated strong typed verified (X)HTML, such as CityLizard Framework or Sharp DOM.
For example
html
[head
[title["Title of the page"]]
[meta_(
content: "text/html;charset=UTF-8",
http_equiv: "Content-Type")
]
[link_(href: "css/style.css", rel: "stylesheet", type: "text/css")]
[script_(type: "text/javascript", src: "/JavaScript/jquery-1.4.2.min.js")]
]
[body
[div
[h1["Test Form to Test"]]
[form_(action: "post", id: "Form1")
[div
[label["Parameter"]]
[input_(type: "text", value: "Enter value")]
[input_(type: "submit", value: "Submit!")]
]
]
[div
[p["Textual description of the footer"]]
[a_(href: "http://google.com/")
[span["You can find us here"]]
]
[div["Another nested container"]]
]
]
];
I realise that this question is old, however the recent release of the ASP.Net MVC 3 Razor view engine now gives you the option to use this same Razor view engine to generate HTML for any purpose.
See Hosting Razor outside of ASP.Net for a guide on how to do this.
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