Question

I’m trying to persist an XML file to disk using LINQ. I have a class of business objects including collections of strings (List) that I want to convert into XML. Is there a simple, one liner to convert this list into a list of XML Elements?

For example, my list may be:

List<string> collection = new List<string>() {'1', '2', '3'} 

The output should be:

<Collection>      <Element>1</Element>      <Element>2</Element>      <Element>3</Element> </Collection> 

At the moment, I’m using this sort of syntax:

XElement Configuration =     new XElement('Configuration',     new XElement('Collection',  collection.ToArray()     ), ); 

However, this concatenates the collection into a a single string element.

Answer 1

XElement Configuration = new XElement('Collection',       collection.Select(c=>new XElement('Element', c)));