Question

I have a REST service returning XML of a serialized object containing a list of int. The object code is below

using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Xml.Serialization;

namespace All.Tms.Dto
{
    [XmlRoot(Namespace = "http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/All.Tms.Dto")]
    public class ReadSensorsForVehicleIdResponse
    {
        public List<int> sensorIdList { get; set; }
    }
}

When this object is serialized the XML is generated and sent as:

<ReadSensorsForVehicleIdResponse xmlns="http://schemas.datacontract.org/2004/07/All.Tms.Dto"      xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"><sensorIdList xmlns:a="http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays"><a:int>107</a:int></sensorIdList></ReadSensorsForVehicleIdResponse>

The problem is that the int values are serialized as

<a:int>107</a:int> 

this causes the deserializing of the object to fail. When I change

<a:int>107</a:int> 

to

<int>107</int> 

the object deserialize correctly. Is there any reason why the int values are serialized this way and how can I fix this problem?

Here is the code I use to deserialize

public static T Deserialize<T>(string xml) where T : class
    {
        var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));

        var stream = new MemoryStream(Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(xml));

        var reader = XmlReader.Create(stream);

        return (T)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
    }

Answer 1

Linq To Xml is easy to use

var xDoc = XDocument.Parse(xmlstring); //or XDocument.Load(fileName)
XNamespace ns = "http://schemas.microsoft.com/2003/10/Serialization/Arrays";

var a = xDoc.Descendants(ns + "int")
            .Select(x => (int)x)
            .ToList();