How to pretty-print XML

It's easy to attractively format XML data as long as it's well-formed. Just load the XML into an XmlDocument. Then write the XML into an XmlTextWriter with formatting enabled. finally, extract the XML text from the XmlTextWriter.

//Attractively format the XML with consistant indentation.

public static String PrettyPrint(String XML)
{
        String Result = "";

        MemoryStream MS = new MemoryStream();
        XmlTextWriter W = new XmlTextWriter(MS, Encoding.Unicode);
        XmlDocument D   = new XmlDocument();

        try
        {
                // Load the XmlDocument with the XML.
                D.LoadXml(XML);

                W.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;

                // Write the XML into a formatting XmlTextWriter
                D.WriteContentTo(W);
                W.Flush();
                MS.Flush();

                // Have to rewind the MemoryStream in order to read
                // its contents.
                MS.Position = 0;

                // Read MemoryStream contents into a StreamReader.
                StreamReader SR = new StreamReader(MS);

                // Extract the text from the StreamReader.
                String FormattedXML = SR.ReadToEnd();

                Result = FormattedXML;
        }
        catch (XmlException)
        {
        }

        MS.Close();
        W.Close();

        return Result;
}