Source: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11492705/how-to-create-an-xml-document-using-xmldocument
#region Using Statements using System; using System.Xml; #endregion class Program { static void Main( string[ ] args ) { XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument( ); //(1) the xml declaration is recommended, but not mandatory XmlDeclaration xmlDeclaration = doc.CreateXmlDeclaration( "1.0", "UTF-8", null ); XmlElement root = doc.DocumentElement; doc.InsertBefore( xmlDeclaration, root ); //(2) string.Empty makes cleaner code XmlElement element1 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "body", string.Empty ); doc.AppendChild( element1 ); XmlElement element2 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "level1", string.Empty ); element1.AppendChild( element2 ); XmlElement element3 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "level2", string.Empty ); XmlText text1 = doc.CreateTextNode( "text" ); element3.AppendChild( text1 ); element2.AppendChild( element3 ); XmlElement element4 = doc.CreateElement( string.Empty, "level2", string.Empty ); XmlText text2 = doc.CreateTextNode( "other text" ); element4.AppendChild( text2 ); element2.AppendChild( element4 ); doc.Save( "D:\\document.xml" ); } }