Question

I have the follwoing XML

<?xml version="1.0" ?>
<SERVICES.OUTPUTResponse>
  <Results>
    <Result>
      <Dataset name="OutputData">
        <Row>
            <country>USA</country>
            <pubyear>9986</pubyear>       
            <numart>123</numart>
            <numcites>456</numcites>
        </Row>
        <Row>
            <country>USA</country>
            <pubyear>97</pubyear>
            <numart>895</numart>
            <numcites>231</numcites>
        </Row>
      </Dataset>
      <Dataset name="Result 2">
        <Row>
          <Result_2>
            true
          </Result_2>
        </Row>      
      </Dataset>
    </Result>
  </Results>
  <_Probe></_Probe>
</SERVICES.OUTPUTResponse>

and i tried to deserialize by using XmlSerializer but it returns null.

The Property class which i used is

public class XMLDetails
{

    public string country { get; set; }

    public string pubyear { get; set; }

    public string numart { get; set; }

    public string numcites { get; set; }
}

Deserialize code is

XmlRootAttribute xRoot = new XmlRootAttribute();
                xRoot.ElementName = "SERVICES.OUTPUTResponse";   
                                xRoot.IsNullable = true;
                var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(XMLDetails), xRoot);
                var reader = new StringReader(remoteXml);
var objpublication = (XMLDetails)(serializer.Deserialize(reader));

Please help me to reslove it

Answer 1

If you want to use Linq To Xml

XDocument xDoc = XDocument.Parse(xml); //or XDocument.Load(filename);

var rows = xDoc.XPathSelectElement("//Dataset[@name='OutputData']")
            .Descendants("Row")
            .Select(r => new XMLDetails
            {
                country = r.Element("country").Value,
                pubyear = r.Element("pubyear").Value,
                numart = r.Element("numart").Value,
                numcites = r.Element("numcites").Value,
            })
            .ToList();

PS: required namespaces System.Xml.Linq and System.Xml.XPath