Question

Does anyone know if there is an alternative to using attributes on C# properties to map to XML nodes when using XmlSerializer?

My issue is that I have an object called Article, with some properties (e.g. ID, Title, Body) and I do not want to add attributes directly to it (used elsewhere, etc, etc)…so I created a partial class and re-defined the properties and added the attributes there, but soon discovered that you cannot have duplicate properties in partial classes.

So I was wondering if anyone knew of any way that I could map the properties instead (in a similar fashion to n-hibernate, for example).

I’d appreciate any help.

Answer 1

There’s a constructor of the XmlSerializer class that allows you to pass a XmlAttributeOverrides and thus alter the behavior at runtime.

Quote from the documentation:

The overrides parameter can be used to control how fields and
properties are encoded in XML. These settings override any attributes
that already exist on the objects. This can be useful when the source
code cannot be modified or multiple encodings are required for the
same classes.