Just pass the filename to the XDocument.Load. Then everything works as you would expect. If you create the reader on your own XDocument can't modify its settings and thus the reader will report whitespaces which are then stored in the XLinq tree and when written out they disable automatic formatting in the writer.
So you can either set IgnoreWhitespaces to true on your reader, or pass the input just as a filename, which will let XDocument use its own settings which will include IgnoreWhitespaces.
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