Serialization to XmlTextReader results in null

[SAM DLG]

I'm not sure how to do this, but in my n-tiered app, i need to pass
xmlreaders as parameters as opposed to strings and as opposed to
xmldocuments().

here's what I have, I can write fine to a file, but I don't want this IO
process--so I've taken that code out.

private XmlTextReader Serialize(object o)
{
/// <summary>
/// This method is used to serialize the message object
/// </summary>
/// <param name="obj">Request object</param>
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter(ms,Encoding.UTF8);
XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(o.GetType());

s.Serialize(xtw, o);

ms = (MemoryStream) xtw.BaseStream;
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms);
XmlTextReader _xtr = new XmlTextReader( sr.ReadToEnd() );

return _xtr;
//return PackageSoap( _xtr );
}

[dickster]

Perhaps this will help

public class GoogleGroupsQuestion
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{

Person P = new Person();
P.FirstName = "George";
P.LastName = "Best";

XmlTextReader xtr = Serialize (P);

while(xtr.Read())
{
Console.WriteLine(xtr.ReadOuterXml()) ;
}

Console.Read();

}

private static XmlTextReader Serialize(object o)
{
/// <summary>
/// This method is used to serialize the message object
/// </summary>
/// <param name="obj">Request object</param>
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

//XmlTextWriter xtw = new XmlTextWriter(ms,Encoding.UTF8);
XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(o.GetType());

//s.Serialize (xtw, o);
s.Serialize (ms, o);

//ms = (MemoryStream) xtw.BaseStream ;
ms.Position = 0;

//StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms);
XmlTextReader _xtr = new XmlTextReader( ms );

return _xtr;
//return PackageSoap( _xtr );

}
} // end class

public class Person
{
private string fname;
private string lname;

public string FirstName
{
get { return fname; }
set { fname = value; }

}

public string LastName
{
get { return lname;}
set { lname = value; }

}
}
Dickster