Umbraco-CMS/src/Umbraco.Core/ContentExtensions.cs

using System.Xml.Linq;
using Umbraco.Core.Models;
using Umbraco.Core.Services;

namespace Umbraco.Core
{
    public static class ContentExtensions
    {

  #region XML methods

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates the full xml representation for the <see cref="IContent"/> object and all of it's descendants
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="content"><see cref="IContent"/> to generate xml for</param>
        /// <param name="serializer"></param>
        /// <returns>Xml representation of the passed in <see cref="IContent"/></returns>
        internal static XElement ToDeepXml(this IContent content, IEntityXmlSerializer serializer)
        {
            return serializer.Serialize(content, false, true);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates the xml representation for the <see cref="IContent"/> object
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="content"><see cref="IContent"/> to generate xml for</param>
        /// <param name="serializer"></param>
        /// <returns>Xml representation of the passed in <see cref="IContent"/></returns>
        public static XElement ToXml(this IContent content, IEntityXmlSerializer serializer)
        {
            return serializer.Serialize(content, false, false);
        }


        /// <summary>
        /// Creates the xml representation for the <see cref="IMedia"/> object
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="media"><see cref="IContent"/> to generate xml for</param>
        /// <param name="serializer"></param>
        /// <returns>Xml representation of the passed in <see cref="IContent"/></returns>
        public static XElement ToXml(this IMedia media, IEntityXmlSerializer serializer)
        {
            return serializer.Serialize(media);
        }

        /// <summary>
        /// Creates the xml representation for the <see cref="IMember"/> object
        /// </summary>
        /// <param name="member"><see cref="IMember"/> to generate xml for</param>
        /// <param name="serializer"></param>
        /// <returns>Xml representation of the passed in <see cref="IContent"/></returns>
        public static XElement ToXml(this IMember member, IEntityXmlSerializer serializer)
        {
            return serializer.Serialize(member);
        }
        #endregion
    }
}