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C# in a Nutshell
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C# in a Nutshell

by Ben Albahari, Ted Neward, Peter Drayton
March 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
864 pages
31h 8m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

XmlConvert

Synopsis

This type is used to convert XML elements into other, non-XML types, such as CLR objects. In particular, it is used to convert XSD types into CLR types, for easy transformation of schema-valid XML documents into C# objects and back again. It is also used within a variety of other areas, including ADO.NET (for automatic conversion of XML documents into relational tables and rows).

For the most part, C# programmers use this type indirectly as part of the .NET Web Services stack, or else directly in order to convert between XML documents and CLR objects (as part of a home-grown XML-to-RDBMS system, for example).

Note that although a constructor is provided, all methods of any interest are declared “static,” and therefore require no instance to use. In essence, this type is a collection of C-style functions.

public class XmlConvert {
// Public Constructors
   public method XmlConvert();  
// Public Static Methods
   public static method string DecodeName(string name);  
   public static method string EncodeLocalName(string name);  
   public static method string EncodeName(string name);  
   public static method string EncodeNmToken(string name);  
   public static method bool ToBoolean(string s);  
   public static method byte ToByte(string s);  
   public static method char ToChar(string s);  
   public static method DateTime ToDateTime(string s);  
   public static method DateTime ToDateTime(string s, 
        string format);  
   public static method DateTime ToDateTime(string s, 
        string[] formats); public static method ...
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Publisher Resources

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