Serialize Data?

Any one have any examples on how i would serialize data values from a Sql 2000 DB....if i have

string name = dr.Item("f_name").ToString()

string lname = dr.Item("lname").ToString

I want to write these values to an xml document? any help on how to get this done? any links would be helpful too

[395 byte] By [Tryin2Bgood] at [2007-12-22]