How to Convert an Xmldocument to an Array?
I Constructed an Xmldocument and Now I Want to Convert It to an Array. How Can This Be Done? Thanks, 3 Answers Try the Following: Using System. Text; Using...
I constructed an XmlDocument and now I want to convert it to an array. How can this be done?
Thanks,
3 Answers
Try the following:
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
XmlDocument dom = GetDocument();
byte[] bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(dom.OuterXml);
If you want to preserve the text encoding of the document, then change the Default encoding to the desired encoding, or follow Jon Skeet's suggestion.
Write it to a MemoryStream and then call ToArray on the stream:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;
class Test
{
static void Main(string[] args)
{
XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();
XmlElement root = doc.CreateElement("root");
XmlElement element = doc.CreateElement("child");
root.AppendChild(element);
doc.AppendChild(root);
MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
doc.Save(ms);
byte[] bytes = ms.ToArray();
Console.WriteLine(Encoding.UTF8.GetString(bytes));
}
}
For more control over the formatting, you can create an XmlWriter from the stream and use XmlDocument.WriteTo(writer).
Steve Guidi: Thanks! Your code was right on the money! Here's how I solved my special characters issue:
public static byte[] ConvertToBytes(XmlDocument doc)
{
Encoding encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
byte[] docAsBytes = encoding.GetBytes(doc.OuterXml);
return docAsBytes;
}
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