Here's a class to provide extension methods for conversion between System.Xml and System.Xml.Linq classes:
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Linq;
/// <summary>
/// Provides extension methods for simple conversion between System.Xml and System.Xml.Linq classes.
/// </summary>
public static class XmlLinqConversionExtensions
{
/// <summary>
/// Converts an XDocument to an XmlDocument.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="xdoc">The XDocument to convert.</param>
/// <returns>The equivalent XmlDocument.</returns>
public static XmlDocument ToXmlDocument(this XDocument xdoc)
{
var xmldoc = new XmlDocument();
xmldoc.Load(xdoc.CreateReader());
return xmldoc;
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts an XmlDocument to an XDocument.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="xmldoc">The XmlDocument to convert.</param>
/// <returns>The equivalent XDocument.</returns>
public static XDocument ToXDocument(this XmlDocument xmldoc)
{
return XDocument.Load(xmldoc.CreateNavigator().ReadSubtree());
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts an XElement to an XmlElement.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="xelement">The XElement to convert.</param>
/// <returns>The equivalent XmlElement.</returns>
public static XmlElement ToXmlElement(this XElement xelement)
{
return new XmlDocument().ReadNode(xelement.CreateReader()) as XmlElement;
}
/// <summary>
/// Converts an XmlElement to an XElement.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="xmlelement">The XmlElement to convert.</param>
/// <returns>The equivalent XElement.</returns>
public static XElement ToXElement(this XmlElement xmlelement)
{
return XElement.Load(xmlelement.CreateNavigator().ReadSubtree());
}
}
