How can I make the xmlserializer only serialize plain xml?

Question

I need to get plain xml, without the <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?> at the beginning and xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" in first element from XmlSerializer. How can I do it?

Answer 1

To put this all together - this works perfectly for me:

    // To Clean XML     public string SerializeToString<T>(T value)     {         var emptyNamespaces = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(new[] { XmlQualifiedName.Empty });         var serializer = new XmlSerializer(value.GetType());         var settings = new XmlWriterSettings();         settings.Indent = true;         settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;          using (var stream = new StringWriter())         using (var writer = XmlWriter.Create(stream, settings))         {             serializer.Serialize(writer, value, emptyNamespaces);             return stream.ToString();         }     }