How to export XML from sharepoitn site using PnP provisioning schema.

Hi all,

I am posting some basic info regarding how we can retreive XML from sharepoitn site using PnP provisioning. It helps to start the basic of sharepoint PnP provisioning schema.It might be helpful for all.Let me know any comments.

below C# code for console app.

private static ProvisioningTemplate GetProvisioningTemplate(ConsoleColor defaultForeground, string webUrl, string userName, SecureString pwd)
        {
            using (var ctx = new ClientContext(webUrl))
            {
                // ctx.Credentials = new NetworkCredentials(userName, pwd);
                ctx.Credentials = new SharePointOnlineCredentials(userName, pwd);
                ctx.RequestTimeout = Timeout.Infinite;

                // Just to output the site details
                Web web = ctx.Web;
                ctx.Load(web, w => w.Title);
                ctx.ExecuteQueryRetry();

                Console.ForegroundColor = ConsoleColor.White;
                Console.WriteLine("Your site title is:" + ctx.Web.Title);
                Console.ForegroundColor = defaultForeground;

                ProvisioningTemplateCreationInformation ptci
                        = new ProvisioningTemplateCreationInformation(ctx.Web);

                // Create FileSystemConnector, so that we can store composed files temporarely somewhere
                ptci.FileConnector = new FileSystemConnector(@"c:\temp\pnpprovisioningdemo", "");
                //ptci.PersistBrandingFiles = true;
                //ptci.PersistPublishingFiles = true;
                //ptci.IncludeNativePublishingFiles = true;
                ptci.ProgressDelegate = delegate (String message, Int32 progress, Int32 total)
                {
                    // Only to output progress for console UI
                    Console.WriteLine("{0:00}/{1:00} - {2}", progress, total, message);
                };

                // Execute actual extraction of the tepmplate
                ProvisioningTemplate template = ctx.Web.GetProvisioningTemplate(ptci);

                // We can also serialize this template for future usage if we want, not really needed
                XMLTemplateProvider provider =
                        new XMLFileSystemTemplateProvider(@"c:\temp\pnpprovisioningdemo", "");
                provider.SaveAs(template, "MyPnPDemo.xml");

                return template;
            }
        }