Create XML string for Web Service

Question

I am sending a request to a web service which requires a string containing XML, of which I have been giving an XSD.

I've ran xsd.exe and created a class based on this but am unsure of the best way to create the xml string to send, for example a stream, XMLDocument or some form of serialization.

UPDATE

I found this here

 public static string XmlSerialize(object o)
    {
        using (var stringWriter = new StringWriter())
        {
            var settings = new XmlWriterSettings
            {
                Encoding = Encoding.GetEncoding(1252),
                OmitXmlDeclaration = true
            };
            using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(stringWriter, settings))
            {
                var xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(o.GetType());
                xmlSerializer.Serialize(writer, o);
            }
            return stringWriter.ToString();
        }
    }

which lets me control the tag attribute.

Mike Webb · Accepted Answer · 2011-02-25 15:12:57Z

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What I am doing on several occasions is creating a class/struct to hold the data on the client-side program and serializing the data as a string. Then I make the web request and send it that XML string. Here is the code I use to serialize an object to XML:

public static string SerializeToString(object o)
{
    string serialized = "";
    System.Text.StringBuilder sb = new System.Text.StringBuilder();

    //Serialize to memory stream
    System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer ser = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(o.GetType());
    System.IO.TextWriter w = new System.IO.StringWriter(sb);
    ser.Serialize(w, o);
    w.Close();

    //Read to string
    serialized = sb.ToString();
    return serialized;
}

As long as all the contents of the object are serializable it will serialize any object.

answered Feb 25, 2011 at 15:12

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PMC Over a year ago

Thanks Mike, this is in line with what I was expecting to use.

jqueryEnthusiast · Accepted Answer · 2011-04-20 03:23:12Z

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Use Xstream framework to generate an xml string. Hope this helps!

edited Apr 20, 2011 at 3:23

answered Feb 25, 2011 at 15:09

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Ken.Fukizi · Accepted Answer · 2017-06-20 15:33:18Z

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Here's what I have done before:

    private static string CreateXMLString(object o)
    {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(object));
        var stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
        using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(stringBuilder))
        {
            serializer.Serialize(writer, o);
        }
        return stringBuilder.ToString();
    }

answered Jun 20, 2017 at 15:33

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