Suppressing Collection node in XmlSerialization

[Paul Hatcher]

Is it possible to serialize a collection so that the collection itself does
not appear e.g.

<Document>
<Resource>
<name>a</name>
</Resource>
</Document>

rather than

<Document>
<Resources>
<Resource>
<name>a</name>
</Resource>
</Resources>
</Document>

I know I can do it if I have an array of items, but I'd prefer a collection
if at all possible

TIA

Paul

[Paul Hatcher]

Found it, you just omit the XmlArray attribute i.e.

/// <summary>

/// Property Resources (EntityCollection)

/// </summary>

[XmlArrayItem("Resource", typeof(Entity))]

public EntityCollection Resources

{

get { return resources; }

set { resources = value; }

}
"Paul Hatcher" <ph******@nospam.cix.co.uk> wrote in message
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Is it possible to serialize a collection so that the collection itself
does not appear e.g.

<Document>
<Resource>
<name>a</name>
</Resource>
</Document>

rather than

<Document>
<Resources>
<Resource>
<name>a</name>
</Resource>
</Resources>
</Document>

I know I can do it if I have an array of items, but I'd prefer a
collection if at all possible

TIA

Paul

[Paul Hatcher]

Sorry, got it slightly wrong, if you want a collection element and need to
name it differently use

[XmlArray("MyXmlCollectionName")]

Then, for the the items you can have multiple XmlArrayItem values e.g.

[XmlArrayItem("Person"), typeof(Resource)]
[XmlArrayItem("Manager"), typeof(Manager)]

Note that all of the items have to be derived from the base class that
collection managers

If you *don't* want the collection element, then use

[XmlElement("Person"), tyipeof(Person)]

I'm sure I've found this out before, but it's not that well documented on
MSDN.

Regards

Paul

"Paul Hatcher" <ph******@nospam.cix.co.uk> wrote in message
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Found it, you just omit the XmlArray attribute i.e.

/// <summary>

/// Property Resources (EntityCollection)

/// </summary>

[XmlArrayItem("Resource", typeof(Entity))]

public EntityCollection Resources

{

get { return resources; }

set { resources = value; }

}
"Paul Hatcher" <ph******@nospam.cix.co.uk> wrote in message
news:eI**************@TK2MSFTNGP12.phx.gbl...

Is it possible to serialize a collection so that the collection itself
does not appear e.g.

<Document>
<Resource>
<name>a</name>
</Resource>
</Document>

rather than

<Document>
<Resources>
<Resource>
<name>a</name>
</Resource>
</Resources>
</Document>

I know I can do it if I have an array of items, but I'd prefer a
collection if at all possible

TIA

Paul