Question

I have a class with two properties for max and min values. It looks like this (ish):

public class Configuration {   public int Max { get; set; }   public int Min { get; set; } } 

When I serialize this I get something like:

<Configuration>   <Max>10</Max>   <Min>0</Min> </Configuration> 

However, I need an extra element like this:

<Configuration>   <Bounds>     <Max>10</Max>     <Min>0</Min>   </Bounds> </Configuration> 

Answer 1

To do that you would need to introduce an extra layer into the object model, too. XmlSerializer likes the xml to be (roughly) a direct map to the objects:

[Serializable] public class Configuration {     public Bounds Bounds { get; set; } } [Serializable] public class Bounds {     public int Min {get;set;}     public int Max {get;set;} } 

The only other option is to implement IXmlSerializable, but you really don’t want to do that unless you absolutely have no choice.