In the previous post I assembled the xively request XML using a StringBuilder rather than using the XML support available in the NetMF. To use the NetMF XML library I needed to add a reference to the DPWS extensions (MFDpwsExtensions) and change the using statement at the top of the module from System.Text to System.Ext.Xml

static void xivelyFeedUpdate(string ApiKey, string feedId, string channel, double latitude, double longitude, double altitude)
{
byte[] buffer;

using (XmlMemoryWriter xmlwriter = XmlMemoryWriter.Create())
{
xmlwriter.WriteProcessingInstruction("xml", "version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-8\"");
xmlwriter.WriteStartElement("eeml");
xmlwriter.WriteStartElement("environment");
xmlwriter.WriteStartElement("location");

xmlwriter.WriteStartAttribute("domain");
xmlwriter.WriteString("physical");
xmlwriter.WriteEndAttribute();

xmlwriter.WriteStartAttribute("exposure");
xmlwriter.WriteString("outdoor");
xmlwriter.WriteEndAttribute();

xmlwriter.WriteStartAttribute("disposition");
xmlwriter.WriteString("mobile");
xmlwriter.WriteEndAttribute();

xmlwriter.WriteStartElement("name");
xmlwriter.WriteString("Location");
xmlwriter.WriteEndElement();

xmlwriter.WriteStartElement("lat");
xmlwriter.WriteString(latitude.ToString("F5"));
xmlwriter.WriteEndElement();

xmlwriter.WriteStartElement("lon");
xmlwriter.WriteString(longitude.ToString("F5"));
xmlwriter.WriteEndElement();

xmlwriter.WriteStartElement("ele");
xmlwriter.WriteString(altitude.ToString("F1"));
xmlwriter.WriteEndElement();

xmlwriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlwriter.WriteEndElement();
xmlwriter.WriteEndElement();

buffer = xmlwriter.ToArray();
}

try
{
using (HttpWebRequest request = (HttpWebRequest)WebRequest.Create(xivelyApiBaseUrl + feedId + ".xml"))
{
request.Method = "PUT";
request.ContentLength = buffer.Length;
request.ContentType = "text/xml";
request.Headers.Add("X-ApiKey", xivelyApiKey);
request.KeepAlive = false;
request.Timeout = 5000;
request.ReadWriteTimeout = 5000;

// request body
using (Stream stream = request.GetRequestStream())
{
stream.Write(buffer, 0, buffer.Length);                }
using (var response = (HttpWebResponse)request.GetResponse())
{
Debug.Print("HTTP Status:" + response.StatusCode + " : " + response.StatusDescription);
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
Debug.Print(ex.Message);
}
}


I was expecting the XML libraries to be quite chunky, but on my Netduino Plus 2 there wasn’t a huge size difference, the StringBuilder download was 49K8 bytes and the XMLWiter download was 56K1 bytes.

When I ran the StringBuilder and XMLWriter versions they both had roughly 92K6 bytes of free memory.

Realistically there was little to separate the two implementations