Question

My last question was about getting the string representation of an object serialized to XML. One of the responders wrote an extension method to encapsulate the serialization process.

My question now is how can I use an Extension Method to return an array of strings, when passed an IEnumerable<T> object, where each string in the array would be an individually serialized element of the IEnumerable<T>.

Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

using the code example from your link, you could add another method like this or convert them into array using ToArray() method.

public static class XmlTools
{
  public static IEnumerable<string> ToXmlString<T>(this IEnumerable<T> inputs)
  {
     return inputs.Select(pArg => pArg.ToXmlString());
  }
}