Modify XML existing content in C#

Question

Purpose: I plan to Create a XML file with XmlTextWriter and Modify/Update some Existing Content with XmlNode SelectSingleNode(), node.ChildNode[?].InnerText = someting, etc.

After I created the XML file with XmlTextWriter as below.

XmlTextWriter textWriter = new XmlTextWriter("D:\\learning\\cs\\myTest.xml", System.Text.Encoding.UTF8);

I practiced the code below. But failed to save my XML file.

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("D:\\learning\\cs\\myTest.xml");

XmlNode root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNode myNode;

myNode= root.SelectSingleNode("descendant::books");

....

textWriter.Close();

doc.Save("D:\\learning\\cs\\myTest.xml");  

I found it is not good to produce like my way. Is there any suggestion about it? I am not clear about the concepts and usage of both XmlTextWriter and XmlNode in the same project. Thank you for reading and replies.

Answer 1

Well, If you want to update a node in XML, the XmlDocument is fine - you needn't use XmlTextWriter.

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load("D:\\build.xml");
XmlNode root = doc.DocumentElement;
XmlNode myNode = root.SelectSingleNode("descendant::books");
myNode.Value = "blabla";
doc.Save("D:\\build.xml");