JSON.NET XML to String

Question

        string json = "{"Animal":{"id":"123","verified":true}}"

        XmlDocument doc = (XmlDocument)JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(json);

        returnXml = doc.ToString();

Why does "ReturnXml" return the following text "System.Xml.XmlDocument" and not the XML output in string format?

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Answer 1

To print XML, you need to use InnerXml

doc.InnerXml;

Answer 2

The ToString method of XmlDocument is not set to output a pretty version of the xml contained therein.

You're best bet may be to just convert that XmlDocument to an XDocument, since that supports a ToString method that outputs actual XML:

XmlDocument doc = (XmlDocument)JsonConvert.DeserializeXmlNode(json);
XDocument linqXML = XDocument.Load(new XmlNodeReader(doc)); 
returnXML = linqXML.ToString();