Knowledge Base Nr: 00290 objtoxml.cs - http://www.swe-kaiser.de

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c#: convert any serializable object to XML-string

  
public string SerializeAsString(Object src)
{
    string text = "";

    System.IO.MemoryStream stream = null;
    StreamReader tr = null;

    try
    {
        stream = new MemoryStream();
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(src.GetType());

        XmlSerializerNamespaces xsn = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

        xsn.Add("fx", "http://www.asam.net/xml/fbx");
        xsn.Add("flexray", "http://www.asam.net/xml/fbx/flexray");
        xsn.Add("lin", "http://www.asam.net/xml/fbx/lin");
        xsn.Add("can", "http://www.asam.net/xml/fbx/can");
        xsn.Add("ho", "http://www.asam.net/xml");
        xsn.Add("xsi", "http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance");
        xsn.Add("xs", "http://www.asam.net/xml/fbx/all http://www.asam.net/xml/fbx/1_2_0a/xsd/fibex4multiplatform.xsd");

        serializer.Serialize(stream, src, xsn);

        tr = new StreamReader(stream);
        stream.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);

        String line;
        while ((line = tr.ReadLine()) != null)
            text += line + "\n";

        stream.Close();
        tr.Close();
    }
    catch (Exception /*ex*/)
    {
        if (stream != null)
            stream.Close();
        if (tr != null)
            tr.Close();
    }

    return text;
}