From 7792b016294ec482364ea93f954dac79b8a19b28 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Noska <austin.noska@profound-tech.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 15:52:47 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] feat: Added Shim to read a list from xml with no root
 element

---
 ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs | 32 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 30 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs
index 9ad62a8..9cf03a8 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/Xml/XmlUtils.cs
@@ -972,6 +972,22 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
 			return ReadDictFromXml(xml, rootElement, childElement, keyElement, valueElement, readKey, readValue);
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Calls childElementCallback for each item in the list.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="xml"></param>
+		/// <param name="rootElement"></param>
+		/// <param name="childElement"></param>
+		/// <param name="readChild"></param>
+		public static IEnumerable<T> ReadListFromXml<T>(string xml, string childElement, Func<string, T> readChild)
+		{
+			if (readChild == null)
+				throw new ArgumentNullException("readChild");
+
+			foreach (string child in GetChildElementsAsString(xml, childElement))
+				yield return readChild(child);
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Calls childElementCallback for each item in the list.
 		/// </summary>
@@ -988,10 +1004,22 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Xml
 			if (!TryGetChildElementAsString(xml, rootElement, out xml))
 				yield break;
 
-			foreach (string child in GetChildElementsAsString(xml, childElement))
-				yield return readChild(child);
+			foreach (T child in ReadListFromXml(xml, childElement, readChild))
+				yield return child;
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Deserializes the xml to a list.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="xml"></param>
+		/// <param name="rootElement"></param>
+		/// <param name="childElement"></param>
+		public static IEnumerable<T> ReadListFromXml<T>(string xml, string childElement)
+		{
+			Func<string, T> readChild = IcdXmlConvert.DeserializeObject<T>;
+
+			return ReadListFromXml(xml, childElement, readChild);
+		}
 
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Deserializes the xml to a list.

From 4312ad1a61ccd564a53ce404d22a9174300098a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Austin Noska <austin.noska@profound-tech.com>
Date: Fri, 31 May 2019 15:58:06 -0400
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] chore: updated changelog

---
 CHANGELOG.md | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 09a3418..8fe6867 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ and this project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/spec/v2.0.0.
 
 ## [Unreleased]
 
+### Added
+- Added Shim to read a list from xml with no root element
+
 ## [9.4.0] - 2019-05-10
 ### Added
  - Added extension method for peeking queues