How to convert an XmlDocument to an array?

Question

I constructed an XmlDocument and now I want to convert it to an array. How can this be done?

Thanks,

Answer 1

Steve Guidi: Thanks! Your code was right on the money! Here's how I solved my special characters issue:

    public static byte[] ConvertToBytes(XmlDocument doc)
    {
        Encoding encoding = Encoding.UTF8;
        byte[] docAsBytes = encoding.GetBytes(doc.OuterXml);
        return docAsBytes;
    }