How to convert IEnumerable<table> to XML from Nhibernate?

Question

Hi,

All the tutorials that I see online when converting a database table to XML always involves a Data Context. However, I'm using Fluent Nhibernate mappings and therefore I don't want to do this.

Is there a way to say convert an IEnumerable to XML document instead? Or are there any other ways to get data from an Nhibernate mapped database to XML?

Thanks

Answer 1

IEnumerable<> -> Xml

1. Linq to XML - You can use this to build up XElements pretty easily from enumerables
2. XmlSerializer - Will serialize POCO into XML, you can wrap something to make it serialize your IEnumerable easily