XmlTextWriter produces processing instruction
This week I've been producing XML Thesaurus files for SQL
Server. The prupose is to enable spell checking in full text. The thesaurus file
is an XML file wih a defined schema, I was creating the file with an
XmlTextWriter but couldn't for hte life of me get it to load.
After much digging I realised the issue was that my XML file had a processing
instruction in it (<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>), this is
standard in a most XML files but unfortunately it causes full text to fail the
file.
So how do you stop the the XmlTextWriter from producing the processing
instruction. Its not straight forward to find out, but it is straight forward to
implement. Simply you don't use the WriteStartDocument method. All this does is
write the processing instruction. Pretty obvious really.
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