Thursday, October 20, 2011
How to convert DataTable to XML in C#?
Following code illustrates about converting a DataTable to XML format. This is often required when passing a DataTable to a stored procedure. We can pass an XML directly to the procedure and process it.
/// <summary>
/// This method is used to convert the DataTable into string XML format.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="dtBuildSQL">DataTable to be converted.</param>
/// <returns>(string) XML form of the DataTable.</returns>
private static string ConvertDataTableToXML(DataTable dtBuildSQL)
{
DataSet dsBuildSQL = new DataSet();
StringBuilder sbSQL;
StringWriter swSQL;
string XMLformat;
sbSQL = new StringBuilder();
swSQL = new StringWriter(sbSQL);
dsBuildSQL.Merge(dtBuildSQL, true, MissingSchemaAction.AddWithKey);
dsBuildSQL.Tables[0].TableName = "Table";
foreach (DataColumn col in dsBuildSQL.Tables[0].Columns)
{
col.ColumnMapping = MappingType.Attribute;
}
dsBuildSQL.WriteXml(swSQL, XmlWriteMode.WriteSchema);
XMLformat = sbSQL.ToString();
return XMLformat;
}