Serializing XML Attributes in Arrays

[dph5010]

I'm trying to make an object that will reflect the response from isbndb.com's API so I can serialize the results into my code. Right now I have code that works, however, the structure isn't quite the same as what isbndb.com uses.

My problem, is serializing the array of BookData objects and putting attributes into the array wrapper tag <BookList>. Right now, I'm just using a custom object called BookList to add attributes to the element, but this only allows for 1 <BookData> tag inside of it, which will not work if I get back an array of BookData elements.

I'd like to have an object called ISBNdb, with an array of BookData objects inside of it and have the attributes "total_results" , etc. get put inside of the BookList tag as attributes.

This is the code I have right now:

public class ISBNdb
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string server_time
    {
        get { return _server_time.ToString("u"); }
        set { _server_time = DateTime.Parse(value); }
    }
    [XmlIgnore]
    private DateTime _server_time;
 
    public BookList BookList;
}
 
public class BookList
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint total_results;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint page_size;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint page_number;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint shown_results;
    public BookData BookData;
}
 
public class BookData
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string book_id;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string isbn;
    public string Title;
    public string TitleLong;
    public string AuthorsText;
    public PublisherText PublisherText;
}
 
public class PublisherText
{
    [XmlText]
    public string Publisher;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string publisher_id;
}

Below is the XML response I get back from isbndb.com

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
<ISBNdb server_time="2007-12-23T13:54:18Z">
    <BookList total_results="1" page_size="10" page_number="1" shown_results="1">
        <BookData book_id="to_kill_a_mockingbird_a02" isbn="0060194995">
            <Title>To kill a mockingbird</Title>
            <TitleLong></TitleLong>
            <AuthorsText>Harper Lee</AuthorsText>
            <PublisherText publisher_id="harpercollinspublishers">New York : HarperCollinsPublishers, 1995.</PublisherText>
        </BookData>
    </BookList>
</ISBNdb>

I want to have code that looks more like this:

public class ISBNdb
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string server_time
    {
        get { return _server_time.ToString("u"); }
        set { _server_time = DateTime.Parse(value); }
    }
    [XmlIgnore]
    private DateTime _server_time;
 
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint total_results;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint page_size;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint page_number;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public uint shown_results;
 
    [XmlArray]
    public BookData[] BookList;
 
 
}
 
 
public class BookData
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string book_id;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string isbn;
    public string Title;
    public string TitleLong;
    public string AuthorsText;
    public PublisherText PublisherText;
}
 
public class PublisherText
{
    [XmlText]
    public string Publisher;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string publisher_id;
}

I want to be able to have the properties for total_results, page_size, etc. be serialized as attributes like the XML from isbndb.com so that it will deserialize for me automatically.

My main issue with my code right now is that arrays don't work right now and they should. Regardless of what my code ends up looking like, I want to be able to get back the BookData as an array so that I am reflecting what isbndb.com is sending me.