Creates a XML encoding of the collection object and its current state with a given root name. : Xml Encoding « XML « C# / C Sharp

1. C# / C Sharp
2. XML
3. Xml Encoding

Creates a XML encoding of the collection object and its current state with a given root name.

  

using System;
using System.ComponentModel;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml;

namespace System.Collections.Specialized
{
  /// <summary>
  /// Represents a collection of useful extenions methods.
  /// </summary>
  public static class NameValueCollectionExtensons
  {
    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a XML encoding of the collection object and its current state with
    /// a given root name.
    /// </summary>
    public static string ToXml(this NameValueCollection collection, string name)
    {
      return ToXml(collection, name, null);
    }

    /// <summary>
    /// Creates a XML encoding of the collection object and its current state with
    /// a given root name and attributes.
    /// </summary>
    public static string ToXml(this NameValueCollection collection, string name, object attributes)
    {
      if(string.IsNullOrEmpty(name))
        throw new ArgumentNullException("name");

      StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
      XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter(sw);

      w.Formatting = Formatting.Indented;

      w.WriteStartElement(name);

      PropertyDescriptorCollection properties = TypeDescriptor.GetProperties(attributes);

      foreach(PropertyDescriptor pd in properties)
        w.WriteAttributeString(pd.Name, pd.GetValue(attributes).ToString());

      foreach(string key in collection.AllKeys)
        w.WriteElementString(key, collection[key]);

      w.WriteEndElement();

      return sw.ToString();
    }

  }
}

   
    
  

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