Wondering if there is a fast way, maybe with linq?, to convert a Dictionary<string,string> into a XML document. And a way to convert the xml back to a dictionary.
XML can look like:
<root>
<key>value</key>
<key2>value</key2>
</root>
Easy way to convert a Dictionary<string, string> to xml and vice versa
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Dictionary to Xml is already answered by @LorenVS
However I found missing answer XML to Dictionary using Linq:
// this could be XElement.Parse("<object attr='attr1'>value</object>") but lets do a file read, for more variety.
var doc = new XmlDocument();
doc.Load(fileName);
//also lets read attribiute and value as it hasnt been done above aswell.
Dictionary<string, string> dict =
doc.DocumentElement.ChildNodes.OfType<XmlElement>()
.ToDictionary(o => o.GetAttribute("attr"), o => o.Value));
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