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

Question

Does anybody know of a tool that will generate LINQ to XML code from a real XML document or fragment? It's reverse-engineering the common scenario of generating XML.

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

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

and have it generate the equivalent C# LINQ to XML code snippet like so

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

Although I'm looking for a quickie, I'm sure some enterprising individuals will tell me to roll my own and provide some awesome reference code.

Answer 1

See this tool.

the application supports :

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

• XAttribute

• generation of business objects

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

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

• the editor allows to create Xml documents from scratch or to add/modify existing Xml documents
• the editor has several views which are synchronized (Text, treeview)
• a help with the seizure (auto completion tags and attributes and checking in the course of the good formation of xml) for the text view,…
• you can also post the data of the nodes selected in a datagridview
• etc

Answer 2

这对于使用T4模板或XSL转换来说并不难，但我不知道有谁做过它。