Question

I have an XML document from an external source.

<?xml version='1.0' encoding='utf-8'?> <ns0:Info xmlns:ns0='http://www.ZomboCorp.com/'>   <Name>Anthony</Name>   <Job>Developer</Job> </ns0:Info> 

I need to deserialize it into an object like this.

public class Info {     public String Name { get; set; }     public String Job { get; set; } } 

Used as is, the Serializer throws an InvalidOperationException

<Info xmlns='http://www.ZomboCorp.com/'> was not expected.

If I add [XmlElement(Namespace = 'http://www.ZomboCorp.com/')] to the class definition, the Serializer returns a new Info object with null properties.

Answer 1

I used xsd.exe (a VS tool) and generated a schema from the XML file and then a class file from the schema. It suggested

[XmlType(AnonymousType = true, Namespace = 'http://www.ZomboCorp.com/')] [XmlRoot(Namespace = 'http://www.ZomboCorp.com/', IsNullable = false)] public class Info {     [XmlElement(Form = XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]     public String Name { get; set; }     [XmlElement(Form = XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]     public String Job { get; set; } } 

But, I was able to get away with

[XmlType(AnonymousType = true)] [XmlRoot(Namespace = 'http://www.ZomboCorp.com/')] public class Info {     [XmlElement(Form = XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]     public String Name { get; set; }     [XmlElement(Form = XmlSchemaForm.Unqualified)]     public String Job { get; set; } }