You can write attributes immediately after writing a start element:
using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
class Program
{
static void Main()
{
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Indent = true;
using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create("foo.xml", settings))
{
writer.WriteStartElement("customer");
writer.WriteAttributeString("id", "1");
writer.WriteAttributeString("status", "archived");
}
}
}
The content of foo.xml