Deserializing XML into object

[Nick]

Hi,

I'm facing a problem when I have to deserialize an XML into an object. The
typical scenario is as follows:
The XML that I have to deserialize has multiple elements of the same type
(lets say multiple occurences of <abc />) with different inner texts.
Now if I use the already available deserialize method of the XMLSerialize
object, then it returns me only the first element's inner text if I try to
extract in a variable of type string. However, I would like all the element
values to come in as an arraylist (preferably). When I tried deserializing
into a variable of type arraylist, it did not give me anything.
Is there any way to achieve this?

I also tried implementing the IXMLSerializable interface, but am apparently
stuck.
Please help me out!

Nick

[Daniel Lidström]

On Thu, 5 May 2005 01:16:01 -0700, Nick wrote:

Hi,

I'm facing a problem when I have to deserialize an XML into an object. The
typical scenario is as follows:
The XML that I have to deserialize has multiple elements of the same type
(lets say multiple occurences of <abc />) with different inner texts.
Now if I use the already available deserialize method of the XMLSerialize
object, then it returns me only the first element's inner text if I try to
extract in a variable of type string. However, I would like all the element
values to come in as an arraylist (preferably). When I tried deserializing
into a variable of type arraylist, it did not give me anything.
Is there any way to achieve this?

I also tried implementing the IXMLSerializable interface, but am apparently
stuck.
Please help me out!

You might try something like this:

public __gc class ListOfObjects
{
[XmlElementAttribute(Type=__typeof(Line),ElementNam e="Line")]
[XmlElementAttribute(Type=__typeof(Spiral),ElementN ame="Spiral")]
[XmlElementAttribute(Type=__typeof(Curve),ElementNa me="Curve")]
__property ArrayList* get_Collection();
__property void set_Collection(ArrayList* arr);

private:

ArrayList* m_Collection;
};

Now you can serialize/deserialize ListOfObjects that can include Line,
Spiral, and Curve in any order.

--
Daniel
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