Chapter 18. The System.Xml.Serialization Namespace
The
System.Xml.Serialization namespace contains
classes that are used to control the serialization of .NET types to
XML. Serialization refers to the process of encoding an object as a
series of bytes, which can then be decoded by another program in
order to replicate the original object. The
System.Xml.Serialization namespace supports
XML serialization, the serialization of objects
to arbitrary XML formats, including SOAP. For serialization to binary
and user-defined formats, as well as to specific SOAP formats used
for the transmission of objects between instances of .NET
applications, collectively known as runtime
serialization, see the
System.Runtime.Serialization namespace.
SOAP,
which formerly stood for Simple Object Access
Protocol, defines a standard mechanism for encoding
objects as XML. The specification for SOAP 1.1 is available at
http://www.w3.org/TR/SOAP. For
more information about SOAP, see Programming Web Services
with SOAP, by Doug Tidwell, James Snell, and Pavel
Kulchenko (O’Reilly). SOAP Version 1.2 recently
became a W3C Recommendation.
To serialize an object instance to XML,
create an instance of XmlSerializer for that type
by passing the type as a parameter to
XmlSerializer’s constructor. Then
use the XmlSerializer.Serialize( ) method to
serialize the object to a System.IO.Stream,
System.IO.TextWriter, or
System.Xml.XmlWriter. To deserialize an object
from XML, use the staticXmlSerializer.Deserialize( ...
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