This is in response to this article and is me giving dennis a hard time. =P

byte[] XmlToByte(XmlDocument d)
{
    
using (StringWriter sw = new StringWriter())
    {
        
using (XmlTextWriter xw = new XmlTextWriter(sw))
        {
            d.WriteTo(xw)
;
            
ASCIIEncoding encoding = new ASCIIEncoding();
            return 
encoding.GetBytes(sw.ToString());
        
}
    }
}