Create an element type XmlNode like text value

   
 

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using System;
using System.Collections;
using System.Collections.Specialized;
using System.Diagnostics;
using System.IO;
using System.Reflection;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;
using System.Xml;
using System.Xml.Xsl;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

//using Dotnet.Commons.Reflection;

namespace Dotnet.Commons.Xml
{
  
  ///  
  /// <summary>
  /// This utility class contains wrapper functions that help to ease the handling and 
    /// manipulation of Xml documents, such as adding an element, adding an attribute
    /// to an element, copying and cloning of nodes, etc.
  ///
  /// </summary>
  /// 
    
  public abstract class XmlUtils
  {
    /// -----------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Create an element type XmlNode like
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="xmldoc"></param>
    /// <param name="nodeName"></param>
    /// <param name="nodeValue"></param>
    /// <param name="namespaceURI"></param>
    /// <returns>an XmlNode of element type</returns>
    /// -----------------------------------------------------------
    public static XmlNode CreateTextElementNode(XmlDocument xmldoc, 
                          string nodeName, 
                          object nodeValue, 
                          string namespaceURI)
    {
      XmlNode aNode = xmldoc.CreateElement(nodeName, namespaceURI);

      if (nodeValue != null)
        aNode.AppendChild(xmldoc.CreateTextNode(nodeValue.ToString()));
      
      return aNode;
    }
    /// -------------------------------------------------------------------
    /// <summary>
    /// Create an element that holds a blog of data in Base64 format. 
    /// The blog of data is passed in as an array of byte.    
    /// </summary>
    /// <param name="xmldoc"></param>
    /// <param name="nodeName">name of the node in which the data is to be held under</param>
    /// <param name="inputBytes">blog of data to be converted to Base64</param>
    /// <param name="namespaceURI"></param>
    /// <returns></returns>
    /// -------------------------------------------------------------------
    public static XmlNode CreateBase64ElementNode(XmlDocument xmldoc, 
                            string nodeName, 
                            byte[] inputBytes, 
                            string namespaceURI)
    {

      // Convet byte array into Base64 string
      string encodedData = Convert.ToBase64String(inputBytes);
      
      return CreateTextElementNode(xmldoc, nodeName, encodedData, namespaceURI);
    }
    }
}