Question

I am using XmlSerializer to generate XML output for my class. Is it possible to create a custom XMLSerializer that have all the xml nodes in lower case? I do not want to add attributes to every field field from my class to specify the node in lower case.

Thank you,
Angela

Answer 1

It depends how much work you want to do. Adding attributes is the easiest option, but you say you don’t want to do that. You could name the classes with lower-case names, but that is a horrible way of approaching this, IMO.

You can tell XmlSerializer what to do at runtime, by using XmlAttributeOverrides – but then you need to use reflection to tell it about all the members you want to tweak, but note: if you do this, you must cache and re-use such a serializer; if you create a new XmlSerializer via XmlAttributeOverrides every time, you will leak assemblies memory.

There’s an example on MSDN