Serializing object graph directly to XML document rather than to text

Bruno Jouhier wrote:
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> Is there a way to serialize a graph of objects and get the output as an XML
> document, without first serializing to text and then parsing the text (I
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I am not sure what you mean with XML document here, if you serialize you
usually serialize to a stream or file and then you have an XML document
there in that file respectively the file is an XML document.
Or are you talking about System.Xml.XmlDocument and want to convert some
graph of objects into an instance of System.Xml.XmlDocument?


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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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"Martin Honnen" <mahotrash@yahoo.de> a écrit dans le message de news:
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> Bruno Jouhier wrote:
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>> Is there a way to serialize a graph of objects and get the output as an
>> XML document, without first serializing to text and then parsing the text
>> (I know how to do this but I find it really silly and inefficient).[/color]
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> I am not sure what you mean with XML document here, if you serialize you
> usually serialize to a stream or file and then you have an XML document
> there in that file respectively the file is an XML document.
> Or are you talking about System.Xml.XmlDocument and want to convert some
> graph of objects into an instance of System.Xml.XmlDocument?[/color]

Of course, I mean an instance of XmlDocument (or XmlElement).
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More on this: I needed this because I have a web service with a WebMethod
that returns an XmlNode (this is a generic method that may return different
graphs for different types of objects, I have another method that returns
the associated schema so the client knows what he is dealing with).

I think that I have found my solution:
http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archiv...erformance.aspx

But still, it would be nice if there were a simple API to convert back and
forth between graphs of objects and XmlElement.

Bruno