GZipStream and XmlTextWriter

Question

Hi All,

I have been looking at the best way of doing this but can't find a solution that doesn't involve using bytes array.

Basically I want to wrap a XmlTextWriter in a GZipStream so I produce a GZipped Xml file.

I have been trying this:

using (GZipStream gzipout = new GZipStream(File.Create(Path), CompressionMode.Compress))
  {
    XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter(gzipout, Encoding.UTF8);
    ... [write elements and attributes, etc]
  }
 
But I end up with a gzipped file of 4096 bytes and when I look into it my XML content is truncated. The thing is that my content length is really variable.

Please give your thoughts,

Thanks,