using System.IO;

using System.Xml;

using System.Xml.Serialization;

    /// <summary>

    /// Method to convert a custom Object to XML string

    /// </summary>

    /// <param name="pObject">Object that is to be serialized to XML</param>

    /// <returns>XML string</returns>

    public String SerializeObject ( Object pObject )

    {

        try

        {

            String XmlizedString = null;

            MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream ( );

            XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer ( typeof ( Animal ) );

            XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter ( memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8 );

            xs.Serialize ( xmlTextWriter, pObject );

            memoryStream = ( MemoryStream ) xmlTextWriter.BaseStream;

            XmlizedString = UTF8ByteArrayToString ( memoryStream.ToArray ( ) );

            return XmlizedString;

        }

        catch ( Exception e )

        {

            System.Console.WriteLine ( e );

            return null;

        }

    }

    /// <summary>

    /// Method to reconstruct an Object from XML string

    /// </summary>

    /// <param name="pXmlizedString"></param>

    /// <returns></returns>

    public Object DeserializeObject ( String pXmlizedString )

    {

        XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer ( typeof ( Automobile ) );

        MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream ( StringToUTF8ByteArray ( pXmlizedString ) );

        XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter ( memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8 );

        return xs.Deserialize ( memoryStream );

    }