Question

i need to replicate the following in XML, but unsure how to do this:

<FAMILY>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
</FAMILY>

i’m using a very basic example to explain what i need assistance with.
the XML is generated from parsing a serialisable class:

[Serializable]
[XmlRoot("FAMILY")]
public class FamilyBlock
{
public string NAME { get; set; }
public int AGE { get; set; }
public DateTime? DOB { get; set; }

 public FamilyBlock(string name, int age, DateTime? dob)
{
 NAME = name;
 AGE = age;
 DOB = dob;
}
}

I attemped to resolve the problem with a list an object but i get the following (the addition of the object name – this i don’t need).

<FAMILY>
<MEMBER>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
</MEMBER>
<MEMBER>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
</MEMBER>
<MEMBER>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
</MEMBER>
<MEMBER>
 <NAME>
 <AGE>
 <DATEOFBIRTH>
</MEMBER>
</FAMILY>

i’m sure this is a simple problem but i really dont have much knowledge of xml

Answer 1

[XmlRoot("Family")]
public class FamilyBlock
{
    [XmlElement("NAME")]
    public string[] NAME { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("AGE")]
    public int[] AGE { get; set; }
    [XmlElement("DOB")]
    public DateTime?[] DOB { get; set; }
}

After xml serialization looks like:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Family xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <NAME>a</NAME>
  <NAME>s</NAME>
  <AGE>1</AGE>
  <AGE>3</AGE>
  <DOB>2011-07-04T13:51:20.6757286+03:00</DOB>
  <DOB xsi:nil="true" />
</Family>