/// <summary>
/// Retuns XML String representation of surce with UTF-8 encoding.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="source"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static String SerializeToXmlUtf8(this object source)
{
String result;
try
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(source.GetType());
var settings = new XmlWriterSettings
{
Encoding = new UnicodeEncoding(false, false), // QQQ Encoding.UTF8
Indent = true,
OmitXmlDeclaration = false
};
using (var stringWriter = new StringWriteUtf8())
{
using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stringWriter, settings))
{
serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, source);
result = stringWriter.ToString();
}
}
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
result = String.Format("Unable to serialize object of type {0}, message: {1}", source.GetType().FullName, ex.Message);
}
return(result);
}
/// <summary>
/// XmlSerialize the specified list of strings.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="source"></param>
/// <returns></returns>
public static String Serialize(List <String> source)
{
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List <String>));
var settings = new XmlWriterSettings
{
Encoding = new UnicodeEncoding(false, false),
Indent = false,
OmitXmlDeclaration = true,
NewLineHandling = NewLineHandling.None,
};
using (var stringWriter = new StringWriteUtf8())
{
using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(stringWriter, settings))
{
serializer.Serialize(xmlWriter, source ?? new List <String>(0));
var t1 = stringWriter.ToString();
var serialized = t1.Replace(" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\" xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\"", "");
return(serialized);
}
}
}