Object Serialization

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How would I set up a class or classes to serialize to XML in the format
below? I cannot figure out how to serialize the group of links as "id"
attributes of the link element.

<data>
<links>
<link id="1" />
<link id="2" />
</links>
<time>12:00</time>
</data?

[Martin Honnen]

KittyHawk wrote:

How would I set up a class or classes to serialize to XML in the format
below? I cannot figure out how to serialize the group of links as "id"
attributes of the link element.

<data>
<links>
<link id="1" />
<link id="2" />
</links>
<time>12:00</time>
</data?

Ignoring the time element (which should be clear) you can use e.g.

[XmlRoot(ElementName="data")]
public class Data
{
public Data() { }

[XmlArray(ElementName="links")]
[XmlArrayItem(ElementName="link")]
public Link[] Links;
}

public class Link
{
public Link() { }

[XmlAttribute(AttributeName = "id")]
public string Id;
}

then you get e.g.

Data data = new Data();
Link link1 = new Link();
link1.Id = "1";
Link link2 = new Link();
link2.Id = "2";
data.Links = new Link[] { link1, link2 };

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Data));
serializer.Serialize(Console.Out, data);

output as

<data xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<links>
<link id="1" />
<link id="2" />
</links>
</data>
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Martin Honnen --- MVP XML
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