Transforming serialized .net object with XSLT

Question

I have a big .net class and a few xslt files. I'm serializing my object to transform with my xslt files.

My class' name is Application and it has an Applicant property which contains a collection of applications.

public class Application
{
    public Person Applicant { get; set; }
}

public class Person
{
    public List<Application> Applications { get; set; }
}

When I serialize an instance of my class, normally the Xml that I obtained contains z:Ref="i18" attributes to prevent infinite Xml creation to describe existing referenced properties. But this situation changes the required Xpath expressions that I have to write in my Xslt file.

Do I have a chance to serialize my object containing the real entity values instead of z:Ref tags for a specified depth?

Here is my serialization code:

public string Serialize(object input)
{
    XmlDocument XmlDoc = new XmlDocument();
    DataContractSerializer xmlDataContractSerializer = 
        new DataContractSerializer(input.GetType());
    MemoryStream MemStream = new MemoryStream();
    try
    {
        xmlDataContractSerializer.WriteObject(MemStream, input);
        MemStream.Position = 0;
        XmlDoc.Load(MemStream);
        return XmlDoc.InnerXml;
    }
    finally
    {
        MemStream.Close();
    }
}

Thanks in advance,

Answer 1

When using this method:

      public static string SerializeToString(object obj)
      {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(obj.GetType());

        using (StringWriter writer = new StringWriter())
        {
          serializer.Serialize(writer, obj);

          return writer.ToString();
        }
      }

I get an error if I make an infinitive loop. Otherwise I get this XML:

          

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" ?> 
<Application xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Applicant>
<Applications>
<Application /> 
</Applications>
</Applicant>
</Application>

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