What's the best way to produce this xml programmatically and persist to file? The data source is just going to be a csv file (you may suggest the csv file be formed another way if it makes programming the xml easier (flexible in this area)):
business name, address line
Comapny Name 1, 123 Main St.
Company Name 2, 1 Elm St.
Company Name 2, 2 Eml St.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ArrayOfBusiness xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Business>
<Name>Company Name 1</Name>
<AddressList>
<Address>
<AddressLine>123 Main St.</AddressLine>
</Address>
</AddressList>
</Business>
<Business>
<Name>Company Name 2</Name>
<AddressList>
<Address>
<AddressLine>1 Elm St.</AddressLine>
</Address>
<Address>
<AddressLine>2 Elm St.</AddressLine>
</Address>
</AddressList>
</Business>
</ArrayOfBusiness>
string path = @"C:\Path\To\Output.xml";
List<Business> list = // set data
using (var streamWriter = new StreamWriter(new FileStream(path, FileMode.Write)))
{
using (var xmlWriter writer = new XmlTextWriter(streamWriter))
{
var serialiser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<Business>));
serialiser.Serialize(xmlWriter, list);
}
}
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