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XML Serialization of List<T> - XML Root

Asked 2009-08-06T08:45:12.130
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First question on Stackoverflow (.Net 2.0):

So I am trying to return an XML of a List with the following:

public XmlDocument GetEntityXml()
    {        
        StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
        XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();            

        XmlTextWriter xmlWriter = new XmlTextWriter(stringWriter);

        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List<T>));

        List<T> parameters = GetAll();

        serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, parameters);

        string xmlResult = stringWriter.ToString();

        xmlDoc.LoadXml(xmlResult);

        return xmlDoc;
    }

Now this will be used for multiple Entities I have already defined.

Say I would like to get an XML of List<Cat>

The XML would be something like:

<ArrayOfCat>
  <Cat>
    <Name>Tom</Name>
    <Age>2</Age>
  </Cat>
  <Cat>
    <Name>Bob</Name>
    <Age>3</Age>
  </Cat>
</ArrayOfCat>

Is there a way for me to get the same Root all the time when getting these Entities?

Example:

<Entity>
  <Cat>
    <Name>Tom</Name>
    <Age>2</Age>
  </Cat>
  <Cat>
    <Name>Bob</Name>
    <Age>3</Age>
  </Cat>
</Entity>

Also note that I do not intend to Deserialize the XML back to List<Cat>

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so simple....

public static XElement ToXML<T>(this IList<T> lstToConvert, Func<T, bool> filter, string rootName)
{
    var lstConvert = (filter == null) ? lstToConvert : lstToConvert.Where(filter);
    return new XElement(rootName,
       (from node in lstConvert
       select new XElement(typeof(T).ToString(),
       from subnode in node.GetType().GetProperties()
       select new XElement(subnode.Name, subnode.GetValue(node, null)))));

}
answered 2010-09-27T09:18:28.220

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