Tehnology for generating xml similar to a razor or any other view engine

Question

I am currently making a website that returns quite a few xml types and some of them are quite big. I don't really need to resort to xml serialization because it would be a bit slow in my case and some class fields must be only partially serialized depending on the context. I am using asp .net mvc 3.0 and .net.

So I imagined it would be great if I could use a technology similar to a view engine to generate those xml files. Maybe I could even use the existent razor view engine for this but I haven't seen anything remotely similar.

My question is if something like this exists or if I can use the existing technology to generate xml files in such a manner.

You can use LINQ to XML directly for this. – John Saunders Oct 10 '11 at 02:50 — John Saunders, Oct 10 '11 at 02:50

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Oct 09 '11 at 23:49

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You don't need a technology "similar to Razor"... you can just use Razor ;)

You just need to specify the content type in the Razor view (and remove the Layout if necessary):

@using MvcApplication1.Models;
@model IEnumerable<Product>
@{
    Layout = "";
    Response.ContentType = "text/xml";
}
<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<products>
    @foreach (Product p in Model)
    {
        <product id="@p.Id">
            <name>@p.Name</name>
        </product>
    }
</products>

answered Oct 09 '11 at 23:49

Thomas Levesque

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Do you know if there anyway in Visual Studio to turn off the html validation so the xml tags aren't treated as invalid html elements? – asgeo1 Jul 05 '12 at 23:35

Tehnology for generating xml similar to a razor or any other view engine

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