How to serialize XAML as part of other plain XML nodes? - wpf

Question

I want to serialize XAML and other app's-settings-info in a single settings-file. Something like:
<root>
<settings>
...
</settings>
<xaml_stuff>
...
</xaml_stuff>
</root>
I'll be thankful for any guidance how to elegantly accomplish it: I have XamlWriter on one hand and the other XML-API\namespaces on the other, but I can't find a way to connect them together.

Answer 1

See if this helps: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms590446.aspx.
From what I understand, it first serializes it to XmlWriter, which you can then use to add other non-xaml stuff
Edit: Here's a concrete C# example (with some changes to what I said previously)...
XmlTextWriter w = new XmlTextWriter("test.xml", Encoding.UTF8);
w.WriteStartElement("root");
w.WriteAttributeString("xmlns", "x");
w.WriteStartElement("item1");
w.WriteEndElement();
w.WriteStartElement("item2");
w.WriteEndElement();
Button btn = new Button();
btn.Content = "Test Button";
btn.Width = 200;
btn.Height = 100;
btn.Foreground = Brushes.Green;
string buf = XamlWriter.Save(btn);
XmlTextReader reader = new XmlTextReader(new StringReader(buf));
reader.Read();
w.WriteNode(reader, true);
w.WriteEndElement();
w.Flush();
w.Close();
And here are the contents of the file it generates:
<root xmlns="x">
<item1 />
<item2 />
<Button Foreground="#FF008000" Width="200" Height="100" xmlns="http://schemas.microsoft.com/winfx/2006/xaml/presentation">Test Button</Button>
</root>