Create A Dynamic Object From An XML File

Here are a couple of simple methods that load an xml file into a dynamic object that can be used in code. At present this code does not handle xml attributes, only elements.

	private static dynamic GetDynamicFromXml(string pathToXml)
	{
	var xdoc = XDocument.Load(pathToXml);
	return GetDynamicFromNode(xdoc.Root);
	}
	private static dynamic GetDynamicFromNode(XElement node)
	{
	dynamic result = new ExpandoObject();
	foreach (var elementGroup in node.Elements().GroupBy(n => n.Name.LocalName))
	{
	var resultDictionary = (IDictionary<String, dynamic>)result;
	var values = new List<dynamic>();
	foreach (var element in elementGroup)
	{
	values.Add((element.HasElements) ? GetDynamicFromNode(element) : element.Value.Trim());
	}
	resultDictionary[elementGroup.Key] = elementGroup.Count() > 1 ? values : values.FirstOrDefault();
	}
	return result;
	}

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