Question

I am playing around with this simple tutorial in C# and here is the kind of XML you can GET.

    <Person xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/RESTfulDemo" 
      xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
      <Age>23</Age>
      <ID>1</ID>
      <Name>Bob Kohler</Name>
    </Person>

Here is the Person.cs class :

    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;
    using System.Web;
    using System.Runtime.Serialization;

    namespace RESTfulDemo
    {   

      [DataContract]
      public class Person
      {
         [DataMember]
         public string ID;

         [DataMember]
         public string Name;

         [DataMember]
         public string Age;
      }
    }

1) How should can I add attributes / Prefixes in my XML for each data member ?

2) How can I set the heading of my XML to this (or anything else) :

    <?xml version="1.0"?>

Answer 1

So, here is what I did to overcome this problem. The solution does not involve Serialization but at least it enables to format the response like you want.

• (1) Put XElement from System.xml.linq as return type of each method and build the xml with the XElement class in each method.
• (2) Use exactly the code provided here to add the xml declaration on top of your xml response. Thanks to @Dash for the link.