Question

I use the following code to deserialize XML string to an object of type T:

public static T DeserializeXMLToObject<T>(string xmlText)
{
    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(xmlText)) return default(T);
    XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
    using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(new UnicodeEncoding().GetBytes(xmlText)))
    using (XmlTextReader xsText = new XmlTextReader(memoryStream))
    {
        xsText.Normalization = true;
        return (T)xs.Deserialize(xsText);
    }
}

But it throws an exception when it accepts an invalid hexadecimal value :

XMLException: There is an error in XML document (217388, 15). ‘[]’, hexadecimal value 0x1A, is an invalid character. Line 217388, position 15.

at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader, String encodingStyle, XmlDeserializationEvents events)

at System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer.Deserialize(XmlReader xmlReader)

In what encoding should I change the line new UnicodeEncoding().GetBytes(xmlText)) into that will accept any hexadecimal value?

My code is in C#, framework 4, build in VS2010 Pro.

Answer 1

There is no such encoding. Those characters are simply illegal in XML.

If you want to serialize binary data, then you should convert it to base64 or hex or something.