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I want to be able to write XML to a String with the declaration and with UTF-8 encoding. This seems mighty tricky to accomplish. I have read around a bit and tried some of the popular answers for this but the they all have issues. My current code correctly outputs as UTF-8 but does not maintain the original formatting of the XDocument (i.e. indents / whitespace)! Can anyone offer some advice please? XDocument xml = new XDocument(new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "yes"), xelementXML); MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); using (XmlWriter xw = new XmlTextWriter(ms, Encoding.UTF8)) { xml.Save(xw); xw.Flush(); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms); ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); String xmlString = sr.ReadToEnd(); } The XML requires the formatting to be identical to the way .ToString() would format it i.e. <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?> <root> <node>blah</node> </root> What I'm currently seeing is <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><root><node>blah</node></root> Update I have managed to get this to work by adding XmlTextWriter settings... It seems VERY clunky though! MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream(); XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings(); settings.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8; settings.ConformanceLevel = ConformanceLevel.Document; settings.Indent = true; using (XmlWriter xw = XmlTextWriter.Create(ms, settings)) { xml.Save(xw); xw.Flush(); StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms); ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin); String blah = sr.ReadToEnd(); }

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