public string SerializeToString(RepositoryItemBase ri)
{
if (ri != null)
{
using (MemoryStream output = new MemoryStream())
{
using (XmlTextWriter xml = new XmlTextWriter(output, Encoding.UTF8))
{
xml.WriteStartDocument();
xml.WriteWhitespace("\n");
// We serialize only the top item and add header to it
if (ri.RepositoryItemHeader == null)
{
ri.InitHeader();
}
// Header
xml.WriteStartElement(cGingerRepositoryItem);
// Write the object data
xmlwriteHeader(xml, ri);
xml.WriteWhitespace("\n");
xmlwriteObject(xml, ri);
xml.WriteEndElement();
xml.WriteEndDocument();
}
string result = Encoding.UTF8.GetString(output.ToArray());
return(result);
}
}
else
{
return(string.Empty);
}
}
