XML Serialization of List - XML Root

Question

First question on Stackoverflow (.Net 2.0):

So I am trying to return an XML of a List with the following:

public XmlDocument GetEntityXml()
    {             


        

Answer 1

There is a much easy way:

public XmlDocument GetEntityXml()
{
    XmlDocument xmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
    XPathNavigator nav = xmlDoc.CreateNavigator();
    using (XmlWriter writer = nav.AppendChild())
    {
        XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(List), new XmlRootAttribute("TheRootElementName"));
        ser.Serialize(writer, parameters);
    }
    return xmlDoc;
}