public static byte[] getRequestContent(string doctype, string root, Type type, object obj)
{
var xattribs = new XmlAttributes();
var xroot = new XmlRootAttribute(root);
xattribs.XmlRoot = xroot;
var xoverrides = new XmlAttributeOverrides();
//... have to use XmlAttributeOverrides because .NET insists on the object name as root element name otherwise ([XmlRoot(..)] has no effect)
xoverrides.Add(type, xattribs);
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(type, xoverrides);
StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
XmlWriterSettings wsettings = new XmlWriterSettings();
wsettings.OmitXmlDeclaration = false;
wsettings.Encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
XmlWriter xw = XmlWriter.Create(sw, wsettings);
xw.WriteProcessingInstruction("xml", "version='1.0' standalone='no'");
//... have to write header by hand (OmitXmlDeclaration=false has no effect)
xw.WriteDocType(root, null, doctype + ".sfrm", null);
XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
ns.Add("", "");
//... trick to avoid printing of xmlns:xsi xmlns:xsd attributes of the root element
serializer.Serialize(xw, obj, ns);
return sw.ToArray();
}
