Question

I am trying to get communicate to a payment processor. When I use XmlSerializer.Serialize
on my object I get

<?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-16\"?>
<txn xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\">
  <ssl_merchant_id>xxxxxx</ssl_merchant_id>
  <ssl_user_id>xxxxxx</ssl_user_id>
  <ssl_pin>xxxxxx</ssl_pin>
  <ssl_test_mode>True</ssl_test_mode>
  <ssl_transaction_type>ccavsonly</ssl_transaction_type>
  <ssl_card_number>4111111111111111</ssl_card_number>
  <ssl_exp_date>0612</ssl_exp_date>
  <ssl_avs_address>101 Main St.</ssl_avs_address>
  <ssl_avs_zip>90210</ssl_avs_zip>
</txn>

Prior to using that method, I manually built the XML for testing and this worked:

<txn>
  <ssl_merchant_id>xxxxxx</ssl_merchant_id>
  <ssl_user_id>xxxxxx</ssl_user_id>
  <ssl_pin>xxxxxx</ssl_pin>
  <ssl_test_mode>True</ssl_test_mode>
  <ssl_transaction_type>ccavsonly</ssl_transaction_type>
  <ssl_card_number>4111111111111111</ssl_card_number>
  <ssl_exp_date>0612</ssl_exp_date>
  <ssl_avs_address>101 Main St.</ssl_avs_address>
  <ssl_avs_zip>90210</ssl_avs_zip>
</txn>

How would I go about stripping out the <?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"utf-16\"?> and xmlns:xsi=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance\" xmlns:xsd=\"http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema\"> from the XML or not have the serializer generate it to begin with?

My object looks like:

[XmlRoot(ElementName="txn")]
public class AvsTransmission
{
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_merchant_id { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_user_id { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_pin { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_test_mode { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_transaction_type { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_card_number { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_exp_date { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_avs_address { get; set; }
    [XmlElement]
    public string ssl_avs_zip { get; set; }
}

Answer 1

My first answer was only half of the problem, you also have to remove the declaration as has been mentioned.

Here is an example:

XmlWriterSettings settings = new XmlWriterSettings();
settings.OmitXmlDeclaration = true;

MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream();
XmlWriter writer = XmlWriter.Create(ms, settings);

XmlSerializerNamespaces names = new XmlSerializerNamespaces();
names.Add("", "");

XmlSerializer cs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Cat));

cs.Serialize(writer, new Cat { Lives = 9 }, names);

ms.Flush();
ms.Seek(0, SeekOrigin.Begin);
StreamReader sr = new StreamReader(ms);
var xml = sr.ReadToEnd();

The string xml now contains:

<cat><Lives>9</Lives></cat>