using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Linq;

using System.Text;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.Xml;

using System.IO;

using System.Xml.Linq;

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    public class data

    {

        [XmlElement("myassembly")]

        public MyAssembly myassembly { get; set; }

    }

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    public class MyAssembly

    {

        [XmlAttribute("name")]

        public string name { get; set; }

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        [XmlAttribute("folder")]

        public string folder { get; set; }

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        [XmlElement("myassembly")]

        public MyAssembly[] myassembly { get; set; }

    }

​

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    public static class XmlSerializationHelper

    {

        public static T LoadFromXML<T>(this string xmlString)

        {

            using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlString))

            {

                return (T)new XmlSerializer(typeof(T)).Deserialize(reader);

            }

        }

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        public static string GetXml<T>(this T obj, bool omitStandardNamespaces = false)

        {

            XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = null;

            if (omitStandardNamespaces)

            {

                ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();

                ns.Add("", ""); // Disable the xmlns:xsi and xmlns:xsd lines.

            }           

            using (var textWriter = new StringWriter())

            {

                var settings = new XmlWriterSettings() { Indent = true, IndentChars = "    " }; // For cosmetic purposes.

                using (var xmlWriter = XmlWriter.Create(textWriter, settings))

                    new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType()).Serialize(xmlWriter, obj, ns);

                return textWriter.ToString();

            }

        }

    }

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    public class Program

    {

        static string GetXml()

        {

            var xml = @"<?xml version=""1.0""?>

<data>

    <myassembly name=""t1"" folder=""1"">

        <myassembly name=""t1.1"" folder=""0"" />

        <myassembly name=""t1.2"" folder=""0"">

            <myassembly name=""t1.2.1"" folder=""0""/>

        </myassembly>

        <myassembly name=""t2"" folder=""0""/>

        <myassembly name=""t3"" folder=""0"">

            <myassembly name=""t3.1"" folder=""0""/>

            <myassembly name=""t3.2"" folder=""0""/>

        </myassembly>

    </myassembly>

</data>";

            return xml;

        }

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        internal static void Test()

        {

            var xmlString = GetXml();

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            Console.WriteLine("Original XML: ");

            Console.WriteLine(xmlString);

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            var data = xmlString.LoadFromXML<data>();

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            Console.WriteLine("");

            Console.WriteLine("Re-serialized XML: ");

            var xml2 = data.GetXml(true);

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            Console.WriteLine(xml2);

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            if (!XNode.DeepEquals(XElement.Parse(xmlString), XElement.Parse(xml2)))

            {

                throw new InvalidOperationException("!XNode.DeepEquals(XElement.Parse(xml), XElement.Parse(xml2))");

            }

            else

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Original and re-serialized XML are equivalent.");

            }

        }

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        public static void Main()

        {

            Test();

        }

    }