Question

I am using XmlSerializer to serialize a class, which has a list of objects
as part of it.Now what is happening is, the child tag names are taking the name from the class name but what i want is it’d take the name from a public field inside child class.Please help, which xml attribute should i use to make it work.

I have this code:

SessionAnalyser sa = new SessionAnalyser();
Circle c = new Circle();
c.Name = "AP";// I want this property as the TAG Name

XML O/P i am getting:

<SessionAnalyser>
<Circle>
<Name>AP</Name>
...
</Circle>
</SessionAnalyser> 

Required XML O/P:

<SessionAnalyser>
<AP>
...
</AP>
</SessionAnalyser> 

Answer 1

XmlSerializer does not support that, note least because it would have no way of deserializing it since it can’t know that .Name maps to the AP in <AP> in advance.

To do that with XmlSerializer you would have to implement IXmlSerializable, which is a lot of work; however, I suspect using something like a DOM (XElement, for example) would be much easier at that point.

TL;DR; version

don’t use XmlSerializer for a scenario that XmlSerializer doesn’t help you with