Force XmlSerializer.Deserilize to ignore empty XML tags

eggie5

I'm having trouble deserilizing an xml node that has empty tags. See
XML:

<ContentCampaigns>
<ContentCampaign>
<ad_id_source type="integer"></ad_id_source>
<billing_code type="integer"></billing_code>
<birth type="datetime">2007-08-24T16:15:16-07:00</birth>
<body>this campaign has alerady been sent</body>
<category_id type="integer">1</category_id>
<created_at type="datetime"></created_at>
<id type="integer">4</id>
<name>complete_campaign</name>
<notes></notes>
<subject>this campaign is read to send</subject>
<thumbnail></thumbnail>
<updated_at type="datetime"></updated_at>
<valid_after type="datetime"></valid_after>
</ContentCampaign>

This XML is generated from a rails web service and respresents a table
in the database.

When I try to deserilize this the deserlizer fails on the empty tags.
How can I make the deserializer simply ignore these tags as they have
no value anyways...?

Oct 2 '07 #1

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eggie5

P.S. Ignore that first <ContentCampaignstag..

Oct 2 '07 #2

Joe Fawcett

"eggie5" <eg****@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11**********************@k79g2000hse.googlegr oups.com...

P.S. Ignore that first <ContentCampaignstag..

Take a look at the DefaultValueAttribute, example here
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...er(VS.80).aspx
and
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/lib...te(VS.80).aspx.
Alternatively alter the serialisation using the XmlElement(IsNullable =
true) to get this sort of output:
<notes xsi:nil="true"/>
when notes is null.
--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name

Oct 2 '07 #3

eggie5

On Oct 2, 3:45 pm, "Joe Fawcett" <joefawc...@newsgroup.nospamwrote:

"eggie5" <egg...@gmail.comwrote in message

news:11**********************@k79g2000hse.googlegr oups.com...P.S. Ignore that first <ContentCampaignstag..

Take a look at the DefaultValueAttribute, example herehttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xml...
andhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.defaul....
Alternatively alter the serialisation using the XmlElement(IsNullable =
true) to get this sort of output:
<notes xsi:nil="true"/>
when notes is null.
--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)http://joe.fawcett.name

I tried giving a node the nil attribute but it still errors out as:
"{"Input string was not in a correct format."}"

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ContentCampaign xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<id>0</id>
<name>serilizatoin test</name>
<category_id>4</category_id>
<subject>i am subject</subject>
<body>i am body</body>
<birth>0001-01-01T00:00:00</birth>
<ad_id_source xsi:nil="true"/>
<valid_after>0001-01-01</valid_after>
<billing_code>0</billing_code>
<created_at>0001-01-01T00:00:00</created_at>
<updated_at>0001-01-01T00:00:00</updated_at>
<notes></notes>
</ContentCampaign>

Oct 2 '07 #4

eggie5

On Oct 2, 3:45 pm, "Joe Fawcett" <joefawc...@newsgroup.nospamwrote:

"eggie5" <egg...@gmail.comwrote in message

news:11**********************@k79g2000hse.googlegr oups.com...P.S. Ignore that first <ContentCampaignstag..

Take a look at the DefaultValueAttribute, example herehttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xml...
andhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.defaul....
Alternatively alter the serialisation using the XmlElement(IsNullable =
true) to get this sort of output:
<notes xsi:nil="true"/>
when notes is null.
--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)http://joe.fawcett.name

Hi, the [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute] attribute
completly ignores the attribute, even when it's set to a value. This
won't work. Sometime the nodes have values and sometimes they can be
null.

Oct 2 '07 #5

Joe Fawcett

I didn't write XmlIgnore I wrote DefaultValueAttribute.
Show the code where the notes property is declared where you tried to use
IsNullable.

--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)
http://joe.fawcett.name
"eggie5" <eg****@gmail.comwrote in message
news:11********************@y42g2000hsy.googlegrou ps.com...

On Oct 2, 3:45 pm, "Joe Fawcett" <joefawc...@newsgroup.nospamwrote:
>"eggie5" <egg...@gmail.comwrote in message

news:11**********************@k79g2000hse.googleg roups.com...P.S.
Ignore that first <ContentCampaignstag..

Take a look at the DefaultValueAttribute, example
herehttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.xml.serialization.xml...
andhttp://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/system.componentmodel.defaul....
Alternatively alter the serialisation using the XmlElement(IsNullable =
true) to get this sort of output:
<notes xsi:nil="true"/>
when notes is null.
--

Joe Fawcett (MVP - XML)http://joe.fawcett.name

Hi, the [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute] attribute
completly ignores the attribute, even when it's set to a value. This
won't work. Sometime the nodes have values and sometimes they can be
null.

Oct 3 '07 #6

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