Question

I found a problem with the XML Serialization of C#. The output of the serializer is inconsistent between normal Win32 and WinCE (but surprisingly WinCE has the IMO correcter output). Win32 simply ignores the Class2 XmlRoot('c2') Attribute.

Does anyone know a way how to get the WinCE like output on Win32 (because i don’t want the XML tags to have the class name of the serialization class).

Test Code:

using System; using System.Xml.Serialization; using System.IO;  namespace ConsoleTest {     [Serializable]     [XmlRoot('c1')]     public class Class1     {         [XmlArray('items')]         public Class2[] Items;     }      [Serializable]     [XmlRoot('c2')]     public class Class2     {         [XmlAttribute('name')]         public string Name;     }      class SerTest     {         public void Execute()         {             XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof (Class1));              Class1 test = new Class1 {Items = new [] {new Class2 {Name = 'Some Name'}, new Class2 {Name = 'Another Name'}}};              using (TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter('test.xml'))             {                 ser.Serialize(writer, test);             }         }     } } 

Expected XML (WinCE generates this):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <c1 xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>   <items>     <c2 name='Some Name' />     <c2 name='Another Name' />   </items> </c1> 

Win32 XML (seems to be the wrong version):

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <c1 xmlns:xsi='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance' xmlns:xsd='http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema'>   <items>     <Class2 name='Some Name' />     <Class2 name='Another Name' />   </items> </c1> 

Answer 1

Try [XmlArrayItem(‘c2’)]

[XmlRoot('c1')] public class Class1 {     [XmlArray('items')]     [XmlArrayItem('c2')]      public Class2[] Items; } 

or [XmlType(‘c2’)]

[XmlType('c2')] public class Class2 {     [XmlAttribute('name')]     public string Name; }