Form and XmlRootElement

[Richard Grimes]

I have an XML file with no namespaces defined:

<data>
<textItems>
<add name="test" value="test value"/>
</textItems>
</data>

I can map this to a class with:

[XmlRoot]
public class data
{
[XmlArray("textItems", Form=XmlSchemaFor.Unqualified)]
[XmlArrayItem("add", typeof(addItem), Form=XmlSchemaFor.Unqualified)]
public addItem[] Items;
}

public class addItem
{
[XmlAttribute] public string name;
[XmlAttribute] public string value;
}

That is fine. I can read in the XML file, deserialize it with XmlSerializer
to a data object and access the Items. I can alter the Items array and write
the data object to the XML file by serializing it.

However, I find that the XmlSerializer writes the root element with
xmlns:xsd and xmlns:xsi attributes:

<data xmlns:xsd="stuff" xmlns:xsi="stuff">
<!-- stuff -->
</data>

How do I prevent that? [XmlRoot] does not have a Form property.

Richard
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[Oleg Tkachenko [MVP]]

Richard Grimes wrote:

However, I find that the XmlSerializer writes the root element with
xmlns:xsd and xmlns:xsi attributes:

<data xmlns:xsd="stuff" xmlns:xsi="stuff">
<!-- stuff -->
</data>

How do I prevent that? [XmlRoot] does not have a Form property.

What's wrong with them?

Anyway, it's a faq:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...%40tkmsftngp12

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Oleg Tkachenko [XML MVP, XmlInsider]
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[Daniel Cazzulino]

You can avoid both namespace declarations by using a custom XmlTextWriter.
Here's one such writer:
http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu/archive.../23/62141.aspx. Look at the
NonXsiTextWriter.
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Daniel Cazzulino
Lagash Systems SA
http://weblogs.asp.net/cazzu

"Richard Grimes" <read my sig> wrote in message
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I have an XML file with no namespaces defined:

<data>
<textItems>
<add name="test" value="test value"/>
</textItems>
</data>

I can map this to a class with:

[XmlRoot]
public class data
{
[XmlArray("textItems", Form=XmlSchemaFor.Unqualified)]
[XmlArrayItem("add", typeof(addItem), Form=XmlSchemaFor.Unqualified)]
public addItem[] Items;
}

public class addItem
{
[XmlAttribute] public string name;
[XmlAttribute] public string value;
}

That is fine. I can read in the XML file, deserialize it with XmlSerializer to a data object and access the Items. I can alter the Items array and write the data object to the XML file by serializing it.

However, I find that the XmlSerializer writes the root element with
xmlns:xsd and xmlns:xsi attributes:

<data xmlns:xsd="stuff" xmlns:xsi="stuff">
<!-- stuff -->
</data>

How do I prevent that? [XmlRoot] does not have a Form property.

Richard
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my email ev******@zicf.bet is encrypted with ROT13 (www.rot13.org)

[Richard Grimes [MVP]]

Oleg Tkachenko [MVP] wrote:

Richard Grimes wrote:

However, I find that the XmlSerializer writes the root element with
xmlns:xsd and xmlns:xsi attributes:

<data xmlns:xsd="stuff" xmlns:xsi="stuff">
<!-- stuff -->
</data>

How do I prevent that? [XmlRoot] does not have a Form property.

What's wrong with them?

Anyway, it's a faq:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=e...%40tkmsftngp12

Oleg,

Its not really my expertise, so please excuse my ignorance <g>

But I have to admit that adding empty namespaces is hardly logical, but it
works. Thanks!

Richard
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