public class XmlLayout : XmlLayoutBase

Public Class XmlLayout
	Inherits XmlLayoutBase

public ref class XmlLayout : public XmlLayoutBase

type XmlLayout =  
    class
        inherit XmlLayoutBase
    end

The XmlLayout type exposes the following members.

	Name	Description
	XmlLayout	Constructs an XmlLayout
	XmlLayout(Boolean)	Constructs an XmlLayout.

	Name	Description
	Base64EncodeMessage	Set whether or not to base64 encode the message.
	Base64EncodeProperties	Set whether or not to base64 encode the property values.
	ContentType	Gets the content type output by this layout. (Inherited from XmlLayoutBase.)
	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. (Inherited from XmlLayoutBase.)
	LocationInfo	Gets a value indicating whether to include location information in the XML events. (Inherited from XmlLayoutBase.)
	Prefix	The prefix to use for all element names

	Name	Description
	ActivateOptions	Initialize layout options (Overrides XmlLayoutBaseActivateOptions.)
	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. (Inherited from XmlLayoutBase.)
	FormatXml	Does the actual writing of the XML. (Overrides XmlLayoutBaseFormatXml(XmlWriter, LoggingEvent).)
	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.)

The output of the XmlLayout consists of a series of log4net:event elements. It does not output a complete well-formed XML file. The output is designed to be included as an external entity in a separate file to form a correct XML file.

For example, if abc is the name of the file where the XmlLayout output goes, then a well-formed XML file would be:

<?xml version="1.0" ?>

<!DOCTYPE log4net:events SYSTEM "log4net-events.dtd" [<!ENTITY data SYSTEM "abc">]>

<log4net:events version="1.2" xmlns:log4net=http://logging.apache.orglog4net/schemaslog4net-events-1.2>
    &data;
</log4net:events>

This approach enforces the independence of the XmlLayout and the appender where it is embedded.

The version attribute helps components to correctly interpret output generated by XmlLayout. The value of this attribute should be "1.2" for release 1.2 and later.

Alternatively the Header and Footer properties can be configured to output the correct XML header, open tag and close tag. When setting the Header and Footer properties it is essential that the underlying data store not be appendable otherwise the data will become invalid XML.

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