How to get Xml as string from XDocument?
You only need to use the overridden ToString() method of the object:
XDocument xmlDoc ...string xml = xmlDoc.ToString();This works with all XObjects, like XElement, etc.
I don't know when this changed, but today (July 2017) when trying the answers out, I got
"System.Xml.XmlDocument"
Instead of ToString(), you can use the originally intended way accessing the XmlDocument content: writing the xml doc to a stream.
XmlDocument xml = ...;string result;using (StringWriter writer = new StringWriter()){ xml.Save(writer); result = writer.ToString();}
Doing XDocument.ToString() may not get you the full XML.
In order to get the XML declaration at the start of the XML document as a string, use the XDocument.Save() method:
var ms = new MemoryStream(); using (var xw = XmlWriter.Create(new StreamWriter(ms, Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1")))) new XDocument(new XElement("Root", new XElement("Leaf", "data"))).Save(xw); var myXml = Encoding.GetEncoding("ISO-8859-1").GetString(ms.ToArray());