XML Serialization question

[Sean Cull]

Is it possible to save the contents of a Rich Text Box to an XML File, including bold text, italics, etc? If not, could someone suggest an alternative way to do it? Thanks in advance. -Sean

[Heath Stewart]

Yes, but probably not like you're thinking. You could save the value of the RichTextBox.Rtf property in a CDATA section of an XML document, but it won't convert the RTF to XML like Word can do; for that, it takes a good filter. You could save the RTF, open it in Word, and save it as HTML (which is actually XHTML - or an XML schema that looks like HTML) from Word. Word 2003 can also save XML in a different schema than XHTML. There are articles here on CodeProject that cover such topics.

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