Tiny Xml Serializer
namespace Grep.Lib.Xml { using System.IO; using System.Xml; using System.Xml.Serialization; internal sealed class TinyXmlSerializer { public static T Deserialize<T>(string s) where T : class { return new XmlSerializer(typeof (T)).Deserialize(new StringReader(s)) as T; } public static string Serialize<T>(T o) where T : class { var ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(); ns.Add("", ""); var sw = new StringWriter(); new XmlSerializer(typeof (T)).Serialize(new TinyXmlWriter(sw), o, ns); return sw.ToString(); } #region Nested type: TinyXmlWriter private class TinyXmlWriter : XmlTextWriter { public TinyXmlWriter(TextWriter w) : base(w) { Formatting = Formatting.None; } public override void WriteStartDocument() { } // suppress } #endregion } }