I am trying to write a compressed xml data to a memory stream. Here is my test console app code:
var ms = new MemoryStream();
var gstream = new GZipStream(ms, CompressionMode.Compress);
var settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
var writer = XmlWriter.Create(gstream, settings);
writer.WriteStartElement("x", "root", "123");
writer.WriteStartElement("item");
writer.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "x", null, "abc");
writer.WriteEndElement();
writer.WriteEndElement();
Console.WriteLine("Data length: " + ms.ToArray().Length);
writer.Close();
gstream.Close();
ms.Close();
Console.ReadLine();
And the output is:
Data length: 0
What am i doing wrong? Thank you.