Question

Have an XML with next form:

 <categories someAttribute='test'>   <category id='1'>    <title></title>   </category>   <category id='1'>    <title></title>   </category>  </categories> 

There is no way to change XML structure. But what I want is to replace buggy hand coded XML generation with XMLSerialization.

Please help with those Category list. Is there a way to instruct XML serializer to not wrap list of categories

Code for Example:

public class Category {     public int Id{get;set;} }  public class Categories {     public List<Category> CategoriesList { get; set; }  } 

Answer 1

Like so:

public class Category {     [XmlAttribute('id')]     public int Id { get; set; }      [XmlElement('title')]     public string Title { get; set; } }  [XmlRoot('categories')] public class Categories {     [XmlAttribute('someAttribute')]     public string SomeValue { get; set; }      [XmlElement('category')]     public List<Category> CategoriesList { get; set; } }