I am using Razor outside of ASP.NET to generate XML documents from a template. I have the following code:
<event>
<timeouts trigger='@Model.TriggerTimeout' />
<parameters>
@foreach (var parameter in Model.Parameters) {
<@parameter.Key>@parameter.Value</@parameter.Key>
}
</parameters>
</event>
where Model.Parameters is just a name/value collection. My expected output should be:
<event>
<timeouts trigger='100' />
<parameters>
<name1>value1</name1>
<name2>value2</name2>
<name3>value3</name3>
</parameters>
</event>
but what I am actually getting is:
<event>
<timeouts trigger='100' />
<parameters>
<name1>value1</@parameter.Key>
<name2>value2</@parameter.Key>
<name3>value3</@parameter.Key>
</parameters>
</event>
What am I doing wrong? What is the secret sauce that I need to apply to make the dynamic elements close properly?
EDIT So now my model evolves to have multiple events, and my Razor code looks like this:
<events>
@foreach (var _event in Model.Events) {
<@_event.Name enabled='@_event.Enabled'>
<timeouts trigger='@_event.TriggerTimeout' />
<parameters>
@foreach (var parameter in _event.Parameters) {
@:<@parameter.Key>@parameter.Value</@(parameter.Key)>
}
</parameters>
</@_event.Name>
}
</events>
the output should be:
<events>
<event1 enabled='true'>
<timeouts trigger='100' />
<parameters>
<name1>value1</name1>
<name2>value2</name2>
</parameters>
</event1>
<event2 enabled='false'>
<timeouts trigger='100' />
<parameters>
<name1>value1</name1>
</parameters>
</event2>
</events>
but it actually is:
<events>
<event1 enabled='true'>
<timeouts trigger='100' />
<parameters>
<name1>value1</name1>
<name2>value2</name2>
</parameters>
</@_event.Name>
<event2 enabled='false'>
<timeouts trigger='100' />
<parameters>
<name1>value1</name1>
</parameters>
</@_event.Name>
</events>
SOLUTION
Through a lot of trial and error, I eventually tracked down the missing secret sauce. The opening dynamic XML element needed a ?:
prefix to render the closing element correctly. Most weird.
<events>
@foreach (var _event in Model.Events) {
@:<@_event.Name enabled='@_event.Enabled'>
<timeouts trigger='@_event.TriggerTimeout' />
<parameters>
@foreach (var parameter in _event.Parameters) {
@:<@parameter.Key>@parameter.Value</@(parameter.Key)>
}
</parameters>
</@_event.Name>
}
</events>