public static XmlDocument RenderToXmlDocument(this XmlRenderer xmlRenderer, WorkStep workStep)
{
var doc = new XmlDocument();
using (var writeStream = new MemoryStream())
{
xmlRenderer.Render(writeStream, workStep);
var readStream = new MemoryStream(writeStream.ToArray());
doc.Load(readStream);
}
return(doc);
}
/// <summary>
/// Retrieves an XML representation of the documentation specified by <paramref name="entry"/>.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="entry">The Entry to obtain documentation for.</param>
/// <returns>An XmlDocument containing the documentation.</returns>
private string GetDocumentationFor(Entry entry)
{
if (null == entry)
{
throw new ArgumentNullException("The provided Entry was null.");
}
string stringOutput = string.Empty;
using (MemoryStream output = new MemoryStream())
{
XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.Encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(output, settings))
{
XmlRenderer r = XmlRenderer.Create(entry, _baseDocument);
if (r == null)
{
return(null); // simply return a null reference if we cant find the renderer for the entry
}
r.Render(writer);
writer.Flush();
writer.Close();
// get memory stream contents as a string
output.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
StreamReader s = new StreamReader(output);
stringOutput = s.ReadToEnd();
}
}
return(stringOutput);
}
