dynamicbible/utils/DynamicBibleUtility/DynamicBibleUtility/XML.cs

using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace VAE.Common.Serialization
{
    public static class XML
    {
        public static bool SaveData(object o, string path)
        {
            File.WriteAllText(path, Serialize(o));

            return true;
        }

        public static bool SaveData(object o)
        {
            return SaveData(o, o.GetType().Name + ".xml");
        }

        public static object GetData(Type t, string path, EncodingType enc = EncodingType.ASCII)
        {
            if (File.Exists(path))
            {
                object o = Deserialize(File.ReadAllText(path), t, enc);

                return o;
            }

            return Activator.CreateInstance(t);
        }

        public static object GetData(Type t)
        {
            return GetData(t, t.Name + ".xml");
        }

        public static string Serialize(object o)
        {
            XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(o.GetType());
            MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();

            serializer.Serialize(ms, o);
            return Encoding.UTF8.GetString(ms.ToArray());
        }

        public static object Deserialize(string s, Type t, EncodingType enc = EncodingType.ASCII)
        {
            // the xmlserializer throws and handles an exception.   this is normal behavior. microsoft doesn't plan to fix this.
            //  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1127431/xmlserializer-giving-filenotfoundexception-at-constructor
            XmlSerializer deserializer = new XmlSerializer(t);
            byte[] byteArray;
            if (enc == EncodingType.ASCII) byteArray = Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(s);
            else byteArray = Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(s);

            MemoryStream stream = new MemoryStream(byteArray);
            object o = deserializer.Deserialize(stream);
            return o;
        }
    }

    public enum EncodingType
    {
        ASCII,
        UTF8
    }
}