This operation would create an incorrectly structured document.

[Jassim Rahma]

Hi, I am trying the following code to create a new XML document but getting the above error. could you please help..

xml_document = new XDocument();

xml_document.Declaration = new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "true");

xml_document.Add(new XElement("EventLog"));
XElement event_node = new XElement("Event", new XAttribute("ID", Guid.NewGuid().ToString()));
XElement event_date = new XElement("DateTime", DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("ddd dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
XElement event_details = new XElement("Description", event_description);

event_node.Add(event_date);
event_node.Add(event_details);

//append element
xml_document.Add(event_node);

xml_document.Save("eventlog.xml");

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

Shouldn't event_node be added to the root "EventLog" node? /ravi

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[Manfred Rudolf Bihy]

Exactly! OP is trying to add more than one root node to a document which is of course nonsense. Regards,

— Manfred

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[Jassim Rahma]

How can I fix it? My xml structure is like this:

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[JV9999]

Empty structures are the best! ;P I guess something went wrong there?

[Richard Deeming]

As Ravi said, you need to add the event_node to the root node, not the document:

xml_document.Root.Add(event_node);

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

See my reply here[^]. /ravi

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[Ravi Bhavnani]

Try this:

xml_document = new XDocument();
xml_document.Declaration = new XDeclaration("1.0", "utf-8", "true");
XElement rootEle = new XElement("EventLog")
xml_document.Add(rootEle);

XElement event_node = new XElement("Event", new XAttribute("ID", Guid.NewGuid().ToString()));
XElement event_date = new XElement("DateTime", DateTime.UtcNow.ToString("ddd dd MMM yyyy HH:mm:ss"));
XElement event_details = new XElement("Description", event_description);
event_node.Add(event_date);
event_node.Add(event_details);

// Append element to root
rootEle.Add(event_node);

xml_document.Save("eventlog.xml");

/ravi

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[Jassim Rahma]

Thanks Ravi. It solved my problem.

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