Question

I would like to invoke XmlSerializer.Deserialize passing it an XDocument. It can take a Stream, an XmlReader or a TextReader.

Can I generate one of the above from XDocument without actually dumping the XDocument into some intermediate store, such as a MemoryStream?

It seems that what I’m after is an implementation of XmlReader that works with an XDocument. I can’t find one though.

Answer 1

You can use XDocument.CreateReader() to create an XmlReader that reads the contents of the XDocument.

Equivalently, the following will work too.

XmlReader GetReader(XDocument doc)
{
    return doc.Root.CreateReader();
}