Question

I have to read the XML:

<items>
    <item>
      <prop1>value1</prop1>
      <prop2>value2</prop2>
      <prop3>value3</prop3>
    </item>
    <item>
      <prop1>value1</prop1>
      <prop2>value2</prop2>
      <prop3>value3</prop3>
    </item>
</items>

And put the values into a List<CLASS>.

Some options:

• Use XMLSerializer to deserialize to a List
• Use XMLDocument to read each item using SelectNodes with XPath and put the values into a List
• Use XMLReader to read each node and put the values into a List
• Other option…

Answer 1

By far the fastest that I have seen is to use XSD.exe to create an XSD and Class to go with it, then use serialization.