Generic Functions for Object ↔ XML Serialization/Deserialization

public static string ToXml<T>(T source){    string result = null; 

    using (System.IO.StringWriter sw = new System.IO.StringWriter())    {        using (System.Xml.XmlWriter writer = System.Xml.XmlTextWriter.Create(sw, null))        {            System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));            serializer.Serialize(writer, source);        } 

        result = sw.ToString();    } 

    return result;            } 

public static T FromXml<T>(string xml){    T result = default(T); 

    if (string.IsNullOrEmpty(xml) == false)    {        using (System.IO.StringReader sr = new System.IO.StringReader(xml))        {            System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer serializer = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(T));            result = (T) serializer.Deserialize(sr);        }    }             

    return result;}