Error 1 The type ‘System.Xml.Serialization.IXmlSerializable’ is defined in an assembly that is not referenced. You must add a reference to assembly

Solution:
Just go to server explorer, right click references and select System.XML from the .Net tab. Rebuild your project and the error should no longer be there.

Case insensitive XPath query

I wanted to do a case insensitive xpath lookup in my C# .Net application. There was no direct way that i could find to get the job done, but fortunately the workaround ain’t that difficult. Lets consider the following example:
<xml><books><book id=”1″ name=”Book1″ type=”fiction” /><book id=”2″ name=”Book2″ type=”nonfiction” /><book id=”1″ name=”Book1″ type=”FICTION” /></books>

To request for all [...]

BlogML importer for WordPress 2.5

I had a blog server which I felt compelled to migrate to WordPress 2.5. The existing blog server can only emit the data in the BlogML format. So I set out to find an BlogML importer for WordPress 2.5. I stumbled upon Aaron’s post on importing to wordpress. So here is what needs to be [...]

Strip Illegal XML Characters based on W3C standard

W3C has defined a set of illegal characters for use in XML . You can find info about the same here:
XML 1.0 | XML 1.1
Here is a function to remove these characters from a specified XML file:
using System;
using System.IO;
using System.Text;
using System.Text.RegularExpressions;

namespace XMLUtils
{
class Standards
{
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