XML Serialization

Question posted by: vector (Guest) on November 11th, 2005 10:50 PM

I've found that I have a use for XML serialization. Does .NET's
support for XML serialization of classes require that a new document
be created each time a class is serialized, or is there some way to
serialize the same class object repeatedly in a single XML document?


In other words, for this class:

[XmlType()]
public class MyRecord
{
[XmlElement()]
public string Name;
}

I don't want this:

MyRecord myRecord = new MyRecord();

myRecord.Name = "Foo Bar";
PerformSerialization(myRecord);

myRecord.Name = "Joe User";
PerformSerialization(myRecord);

to produce this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
<MyRecord xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" id="id1">
<Name xsi:type="xsd:string">Foo Bar</Name>
</MyRecord>
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="IBM437"?>
<MyRecord xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" id="id1">
<Name xsi:type="xsd:string">Joe User</Name>
</MyRecord>

I want this:

<MyRecord>
<xs:element name="Name" type="string">Foo Bar</Name>
</MyRecord>
<MyRecord>
<xs:element name="Name" type="string">Joe User</Name>
</MyRecord>

(Well, ok, what I REALLY want is this:)

<root>
<xs:schema elementFormDefault="qualified"
xmlns:xs="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<xs:element name="MyRecord">
<xs:complexType>
<xs:sequence>
<xs:element name="Name" type="xs:string"/>
</xs:sequence>
</xs:complexType>
</xs:element>
</xs:schema>

<MyRecord>
<Name>Foo Bar</Name>
</MyRecord>
<MyRecord>
<Name>Joe User</Name>
</MyRecord>
</root>



On a related note, if I have to implement my own serialization class,
how might I implement this function:


public XmlQualifiedName ConvertTypeToXMLQualifiedName(System.Type
systemType)
{
//do stuff
}

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