Question

I constructed an XmlDocument and now I want to convert it to an array. How can this be done?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Try the following:

using System.Text;
using System.Xml;

XmlDocument dom = GetDocument();
byte[] bytes = Encoding.Default.GetBytes(dom.OuterXml);

If you want to preserve the text encoding of the document, then change the Default encoding to the desired encoding, or follow Jon Skeet’s suggestion.