Generate LINQ to XML C # code from an XML document?

Question

Does anyone know a tool that will generate LINQ to XML code from a real XML document or fragment? This is reverse engineering a common XML generation script.

For example, I want to provide an XML fragment as input, such as

<root> <thing>value</thing> </root> 

and generate the equivalent C # LINQ to XML code snippet in this way

 var x = new XElement("root", new XElement("thing", new XText("value")); ); 

Although I'm looking for a quick one, I'm sure some enterprising people will tell me to quit my own and provide some awesome reference code.

Answer 1

See this tool .

The application supports:

• XDocument
• XDeclaration
• XProcessingInstruction
• XComment
• XNamespace
• XElement

• XAttribute

• creation of business objects

• Linq To Xml code generation (with variables, in the method, extracting the code corresponding to the selected nodes)

• you can open the xml file or directly copy to xml file in richtextbox

• The editor allows you to create Xml documents from scratch or add / modify existing Xml documents.
• the editor has several types that are synchronized (text, tree)
• help with capture (tags and attributes of automatic completion and verification during the formation of xml) for a text view, ...
• you can also publish data of nodes selected in datagridview
• etc.

Answer 2

This is not difficult to do using T4 templates or XSL transforms, but I don’t know who did it.