FRENDS⁴ Common Components : Frends.Common.Data.CombineData.CombineXMLData

Created by Frends Editor, last modified on Mar 21, 2016

This task takes XML strings or XML documents as inputs, which will be then combined to form a one huge XML according to the following rules and parameters.

Input Parameters

  • xmlRootElementName
    • Name for the root element
  • Input
    • The object that is combined. Input can be given in the following formats:
      • XML as a C# String
      • C# XmlDocument
  • ChildElementName
    • Name for the child element that the input is written into.

Output Result

  • String
    • A string containing the new combined XML document

Example Usage

For example calling this task with the following settings:

xmlRootElementName: "Foo"
Input: "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?><bar>foo</bar>"
ChildElementName: "Bar0"
Input: "<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"?><foo>bar</foo>"
ChildElementName: "Bar1"
 Will produce the following XML document:
"<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><Foo><Bar0><bar>foo</bar></Bar0><Bar1><foo>bar</foo></Bar1></Foo>"