serializable abstract class, can be used for inheritance , C# .net

can be used for serialize object to xml

abstract public class AbstractXMLObject
{
        public string XML
        {
                get
                {
                        XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(this.GetType());
                        StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
                        xmlSerializer.Serialize(stringWriter,this);
                        return stringWriter.ToString();
                }
                set
                {
                        XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(this.GetType());
                        StringReader stringReader = new StringReader(value);
                        this = xmlSerializer.Deserialize(stringReader);
                }
        }
}

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