Cloning infrastructure and breaking up spriteInfo to be able to hold multiple animations for one sprite

SpriteLibrary/SpriteDatabase.cs

@@ -238,6 +238,37 @@ namespace SpriteLibrary
                     reader.Close();
             }
         }
+
+        public static string WriteToXMLString<T>(T toSerialize)
+        {
+            XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(toSerialize.GetType());
+
+            using (StringWriter textWriter = new StringWriter())
+            {
+                xmlSerializer.Serialize(textWriter, toSerialize);
+                return textWriter.ToString();
+            }
+        }
+        public static T ReadFromXmlString<T>(string toDeserialize) where T : new()
+        {
+            XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
+            using (StringReader textReader = new StringReader(toDeserialize))
+                return (T)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(textReader);
+        }
+
+        public static T CloneByXMLSerializing<T>(T ObjectToClone)
+        {
+            XmlSerializer xmlSerializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
+            string dest;
+            using (StringWriter textWriter = new StringWriter())
+            {
+                xmlSerializer.Serialize(textWriter, ObjectToClone);
+                dest = textWriter.ToString();
+            }
+
+            using (StringReader textReader = new StringReader(dest))
+                return (T)xmlSerializer.Deserialize(textReader);
+        }
         #endregion
     }