Retrieve enum value based on XmlEnumAttribute name value

Question

I need a Generic function to retrieve the name or value of an enum based on the XmlEnumAttribute \"Name\" property of the enum. For example I have the following enum define

Answer 1

@Dean, @Jason and @Camron, thank you for your solutions. Your solutions helped me in solving my problem, where, given an XmlEnumAttribute name, the actual enum value was needed.

My variant is mentioned here.

I am also including it here as as asked by one of our moderators:

The actual problem was how to get Item10, when given a value of 10. Taking a cue from the solution cited by our above mentioned friends, I came up with the following method, which when passed a value contained in XmlEnumAttribute, would return the enum value:

private static T GetEnumValueFromXmlAttrName(string attribVal)
{
    T val = default(T);

    if (typeof(T).BaseType.FullName.Equals("System.Enum"))
    {
        FieldInfo[] fields = typeof(T).GetFields();

        foreach (FieldInfo field in fields)
        {
            object[] attribs = field.GetCustomAttributes(typeof(XmlEnumAttribute), false);

            foreach (object attr in attribs)
            {
                if ((attr as XmlEnumAttribute).Name.Equals(attribVal))
                {
                    val = (T)field.GetValue(null);
                    return val;
                }
            }
        }
    }
    else
        throw new Exception("The supplied type is not an Enum.");

    return val;
}