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