using System;

using System.Collections.Generic;

using System.Text;

using System.Linq;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.Linq;

using System.IO;

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using NUnit.Framework; //NUnit.Framework.AssertionException

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//https://stackoverflow.com/questions/72898584/why-is-xmlwriter-failing-to-replace-characters-not-supported-by-the-current-enco

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    public static class XmlSerializationHelper

    {

        public static string GetOuterXml(this XmlNode node, bool indent = false, Encoding encoding = null, bool omitXmlDeclaration = false)

        {

            if (node == null)

                return null;

            using var stream = new MemoryStream();

            node.Save(stream, indent : indent, encoding : encoding, omitXmlDeclaration : omitXmlDeclaration, closeOutput : false);

            stream.Position = 0;

            using var reader = new StreamReader(stream);

            return reader.ReadToEnd();

        }

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        public static void Save(this XmlNode node, Stream stream, bool indent = false, Encoding encoding = null, bool omitXmlDeclaration = false, bool closeOutput = true) =>

            node.Save(stream, new XmlWriterSettings

                      {

                          Indent = indent,

                          Encoding = encoding,

                          OmitXmlDeclaration = omitXmlDeclaration,

                          CloseOutput = closeOutput,

                      });

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        public static void Save(this XmlNode node, Stream stream, XmlWriterSettings settings)

        {

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

            {

                node.WriteTo(xmlWriter);

            }

        }

    }

    public class TestClass

    {

        public static void Test()

        {

            var xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();

            xmlDoc.LoadXml("<Root>‘</Root>");

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            // Output to XML and escape all non-ASCII characters.

            var xml = xmlDoc.GetOuterXml(encoding : Encoding.ASCII, omitXmlDeclaration : true);

            Console.WriteLine(xml);

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            var fileName = "Question72348095.xml";

            using (var stream = new FileStream(fileName, FileMode.OpenOrCreate))

            {

                xmlDoc.Save(stream, indent : true, encoding : Encoding.ASCII, omitXmlDeclaration : true);

            }

            Console.WriteLine(File.ReadAllText(fileName));

        }

    }

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    public class Program

    {

        public static void Main()

        {

            Console.WriteLine("Environment version: {0} ({1}, {2})", System.Runtime.InteropServices.RuntimeInformation.FrameworkDescription , Environment.Version, Environment.OSVersion);

            Console.WriteLine();

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            try

            {

                TestClass.Test();

            }

            catch (Exception ex)

            {

                Console.WriteLine("Failed with unhandled exception: ");

                Console.WriteLine(ex);

                throw;

            }

        }

    }

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