Convert or cast object[] to xml document and retrieve values from xml nodes

1. What is the most optimized code for converting an object[] to an xml document? In a function from a service the return type is object [] and the object returned contains a list of xml elements. So I need to convert this object[] to xml for data retrieval.

2. Also what is the most optimized code for ret开发者_JAVA技巧rieving values from a particular node ( say node with name project) and values as list ( ABC, XYZ) by navigating through the xml document given?

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?> <ArrayOfAnyType xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"> <anyType> <attributes xmlns="http://services.abc.com"> <attributes> <name>projectdetails</name> <values> <values>ABC</values> <values>XYZ</values> </values> </attributes> </anyType> </ArrayOfAnyType>

XMLSerializer does a pretty good job on serializing any objects.

No idea on optimized..it's .net..so it probably uses an optimal data structure for this(perhaps a b tree).

Here is an article on the topic. http://robseder.wordpress.com/2010/03/18/the-deal-with-xmlserializer-being-so-slow-%E2%80%93-finally/