XML Deserialization Question

[xlar54]

Lets say I have an xml document that reads:

<Book>
<ID>
<Title>SomeTitle</Title>
<ISBN>12345</ISBN>
</ID>
</Book>

But I want to deserialize it to an object that looks like:

[XmlRoot("Book")]
public class Book
{
[XmlElement(ElementName="Title")]
public string Title;

[XmlElement(ElementName="ISBN"])
public string isbn;
}

The problem appears to be the ID element in the xml document. How do
I qualify the XmlElement attributes so that the Title goes into the
Title, and ISBN goes into ISBN? Should it be something like
[XmlElement(ElementName="ID.Title")] ?

[Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]]

If you are going to do this with attributes on your class, then you will
have to expose a structure with the title and ISBN through a property named
ID (or something else, if you apply the XmlElement attribute to it).

Otherwise, you have to implement IXmlSerializable, and serialize this in
a custom manner. I would create a private structure with the title and ISBN
codes in it, and then attach the xml serialization attributes to that. In
your implementation of IXmlSerializable, you would then navigate to the ID
tag, and deserialize an instance of the private structure from there.
--
- Nicholas Paldino [.NET/C# MVP]
- mv*@spam.guard.caspershouse.com

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Lets say I have an xml document that reads:

<Book>
<ID>
<Title>SomeTitle</Title>
<ISBN>12345</ISBN>
</ID>
</Book>

But I want to deserialize it to an object that looks like:

[XmlRoot("Book")]
public class Book
{
[XmlElement(ElementName="Title")]
public string Title;

[XmlElement(ElementName="ISBN"])
public string isbn;
}

The problem appears to be the ID element in the xml document. How do
I qualify the XmlElement attributes so that the Title goes into the
Title, and ISBN goes into ISBN? Should it be something like
[XmlElement(ElementName="ID.Title")] ?

[sloan]

You can grab a few ideas here about how naming of the elements work.

http://sholliday.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!A68482B9628A842A!114.entry

But you're probably going to have to implement the interface (previously
mentioned in another post) if you need it exact and to your liking.
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Lets say I have an xml document that reads:

<Book>
<ID>
<Title>SomeTitle</Title>
<ISBN>12345</ISBN>
</ID>
</Book>

But I want to deserialize it to an object that looks like:

[XmlRoot("Book")]
public class Book
{
[XmlElement(ElementName="Title")]
public string Title;

[XmlElement(ElementName="ISBN"])
public string isbn;
}

The problem appears to be the ID element in the xml document. How do
I qualify the XmlElement attributes so that the Title goes into the
Title, and ISBN goes into ISBN? Should it be something like
[XmlElement(ElementName="ID.Title")] ?