ByteDev.Xml

.NET Standard library of XML related functionality.

Installation

ByteDev.Xml has been written as a .NET Standard 2.0 library, so you can consume it from a .NET Core or .NET Framework 4.6.1 (or greater) application.

ByteDev.Xml is hosted as a package on nuget.org. To install from the Package Manager Console in Visual Studio run:

Install-Package ByteDev.Xml

Further details can be found on the nuget page.

Release Notes

Releases follow semantic versioning.

Full details of the release notes can be viewed on GitHub.

Usage

Extension methods:

XDocument

• IsRootName

XElement

• GetChildElement
• GetChildElements
• GetChildElementValue
• GetChildElementValue
• GetAttributeValue
• GetAttributeValue
• HasDescendants

IEnumerable

• GetChildElement
• GetChildElements

String

• IsXml
• ContainsOnlyXmlChars

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XmlDataSerializer

Example of serializing and deserializing:

[XmlRoot("product")]
public class ProductXml
{
    [XmlElement("code")]
    public string Code { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("name")]
    public string Name { get; set; }
}

// ...

var product = new ProductXml { Code = "code1", Name = "name1" };

IXmlDataSerializer serializer = new XmlDataSerializer();

var xml = serializer.Serialize(product, Encoding.UTF8);

var p = serializer.Deserialize<ProductXml>(xml);

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XmlEncoder

Example of encoding a XML string:

var result = XmlEncoder.Encode("Using & special 'entity'");

// result == "Using & special 'entity'"

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XmlSanitizer

Example of removing illegal XML characters from a XML string:

char illegalChar = '\0';

string s = $"this {illegalChar} that {illegalChar} this";

var result = XmlSanitizer.Sanitize(s);

// result == "this  that  this"