Converting XML to string using C#

Question

I have a function as below

public string GetXMLAsString(XmlDocument myxml)     {         XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();         doc.LoadXml(myxml);                 StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();         XmlTextWriter tx = new XmlTextWriter(sw);         doc.WriteTo(tx);          string str = sw.ToString();//          return str;     } 

I'm passing an XML to this method from an another method. But in the doc.loadxml(), the system is expecting a string and since I'm passing an XML, it throws error.

How to solve this issue?

Answer 1

As Chris suggests, you can do it like this:

public string GetXMLAsString(XmlDocument myxml) {     return myxml.OuterXml; } 

Or like this:

public string GetXMLAsString(XmlDocument myxml)     {          StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();         XmlTextWriter tx = new XmlTextWriter(sw);         myxml.WriteTo(tx);          string str = sw.ToString();//          return str;     } 

and if you really want to create a new XmlDocument then do this

XmlDocument newxmlDoc= myxml