remove encoding from xmlserializer

Question

I am using the following code to create an xml document -

XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
ns.Add("", "");
new XmlSerializer(typeof(docket)).Serialize(Console.Out, i, ns); 

this works great in creating the xml file with no namespace attributes. i would like to also have no encoding attribute in the root element, but I cannot find a way to do it. Does anyone have any idea if this can be done?

Thanks

Answer 1

Old answer removed and update with new solution:

Assuming that it's ok to remove the xml declaration completly, because it makes not much sense without the encoding attribute:

XmlSerializerNamespaces ns = new XmlSerializerNamespaces(); ns.Add("", "");
using (XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(Console.Out, new XmlWriterSettings { OmitXmlDeclaration = true}))
{
  new XmlSerializer(typeof (SomeType)).Serialize(writer, new SomeType(), ns);
}