XmlLayoutBase Class

Apache log4net™ SDK Documentation

Layout that formats the log events as XML elements.

Inheritance Hierarchy

Namespace: log4net.Layout
Assembly: log4net (in log4net.dll) Version: 2.0.8.0-.NET 4.0

Syntax

public abstract class XmlLayoutBase : LayoutSkeleton

Public MustInherit Class XmlLayoutBase
	Inherits LayoutSkeleton

public ref class XmlLayoutBase abstract : public LayoutSkeleton

[<AbstractClassAttribute>]
type XmlLayoutBase =  
    class
        inherit LayoutSkeleton
    end

The XmlLayoutBase type exposes the following members.

Constructors

	Name	Description
	XmlLayoutBase	Protected constructor to support subclasses
	XmlLayoutBase(Boolean)	Protected constructor to support subclasses

Properties

	Name	Description
	ContentType	Gets the content type output by this layout. (Overrides LayoutSkeletonContentType.)
	Footer	The footer for the layout format. (Inherited from LayoutSkeleton.)
	Header	The header for the layout format. (Inherited from LayoutSkeleton.)
	IgnoresException	Flag indicating if this layout handles exceptions (Inherited from LayoutSkeleton.)
	InvalidCharReplacement	The string to replace characters that can not be expressed in XML with. Remarks Not all characters may be expressed in XML. This property contains the string to replace those that can not with. This defaults to a ?. Set it to the empty string to simply remove offending characters. For more details on the allowed character ranges see http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#charsets Character replacement will occur in the log message, the property names and the property values.
	LocationInfo	Gets a value indicating whether to include location information in the XML events.

Methods

	Name	Description
	ActivateOptions	Initialize layout options (Overrides LayoutSkeletonActivateOptions.)
	Equals	Determines whether the specified Object is equal to the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	Finalize	Allows an Object to attempt to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before the Object is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	Format(LoggingEvent)	Convenience method for easily formatting the logging event into a string variable. (Inherited from LayoutSkeleton.)
	Format(TextWriter, LoggingEvent)	Produces a formatted string. (Overrides LayoutSkeletonFormat(TextWriter, LoggingEvent).)
	FormatXml	Does the actual writing of the XML.
	GetHashCode	Serves as a hash function for a particular type. (Inherited from Object.)
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Returns a String that represents the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)

Remarks

This is an abstract class that must be subclassed by an implementation to conform to a specific schema.

Deriving classes must implement the FormatXml(XmlWriter, LoggingEvent) method.