Question

I have an XML File that I am processing using LINQ. I want to basically serialize the XML data into custom objects but don’t know how.

Simplified XML

<Data>    <Group id='1'>       <Child id='1'/>       <Child id='2'/>       <Child id='3'/>    </Group>    <Group id='2'>       <Child id='1'/>       <Child id='2'/>       <Child id='3'/>    </Group> </Data> 

I have a class called Group with a property called Children that is a list of (Child).

I can do the following in linq to generate the Enurable( of Group):

 dim g = From item In _  XElement.Load('XMLFile.xml', LoadOptions.None)...<Group> _  Select New nABLE4ConfigInfo.Group(item.@id) 

How can I finish the above LINQ query to populate the Children property of the Group object?

Answer 1

It’s as simple as nested select statements and the right constructor on the class.

 Dim g = From item In _       XElement.Load('XMLFile.xml', LoadOptions.None)...<Group> _              Select New Group(id:=item.@id, _                    Children:=(From c In item...<Child>  Select c.@id).ToList)