Shortest way to deserialize XmlDocument

Question

I am looking for a clean and short way to deserialize a XmlDocument object. The closest thing I found was this but I am really wondering if there is no nicer way to do this (in .NET 4.5 or even 4.6) since I already have the XmlDocument.

So currently this looks as follows:

// aciResponse.Data is a XmlDocument
MyClass response;
using (XmlReader reader = XmlReader.Create((new StringReader(aciResponse.Data.InnerXml))))
{
    var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass));
    response =  (MyClass)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}

Thanks for any better idea!

Answer 1

If you already have a XmlDocument object than you could use XmlNodeReader

MyClass response = null;
XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(MyClass));
using (XmlReader reader = new XmlNodeReader(aciResponse.Data))
{
    response = (MyClass)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}