Question

Im having a little trouble understanding how I should work with xml files, so I hope you guys can guide me in the right dirrection 🙂 Hopefully I can explain my problem clear enough 🙂

I have a lot of .xsd files which are all connected from top to bottom. So I have 10 .xsd with namespace A and 10 .xsd with namespace B. Lets say that the two namespaces represents each own car. That means they both share a lot of the same elements, like engine, wheel ect..
I tought that I could make use of xsd.exe and then just serialize the xml files them in my C# code. But when I have converted the .xsd files into two .cs files (one for each namespace/car), they share a lot of the same classes. That makes a problem when I want to add the two .cs files to my project. Cant have two classes with the same name…
How do I solve this? Am I using the wrong tools or have I completely misunderstood what I should do? 🙂

The beginning of the .cs file:

//------------------------------------------------------------------------------
// <auto-generated>
//     This code was generated by a tool.
//     Runtime Version:4.0.30319.261
//
//     Changes to this file may cause incorrect behavior and will be lost if
//     the code is regenerated.
// </auto-generated>
//------------------------------------------------------------------------------

using System.Xml.Serialization;

// 
// This source code was auto-generated by xsd, Version=4.0.30319.1.
// 


/// <remarks/>
[System.CodeDom.Compiler.GeneratedCodeAttribute("xsd", "4.0.30319.1")]
[System.SerializableAttribute()]
[System.Diagnostics.DebuggerStepThroughAttribute()]
[System.ComponentModel.DesignerCategoryAttribute("code")]          [System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTypeAttribute(Namespace="http://rep.oio.dk/sundcom.dk/medcom.dk/xml/schemas/2006/07/01/")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlRootAttribute("FixedFont",     Namespace="http://rep.oio.dk/sundcom.dk/medcom.dk/xml/schemas/2006/07/01/", IsNullable=false)]
public partial class SimpleFormattedText {

private object[] itemsField;

private ItemsChoiceType[] itemsElementNameField;

private string[] textField;

/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Bold", typeof(BreakableText))]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Break", typeof(Break))]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Center", typeof(BreakableText))]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Italic", typeof(BreakableText))]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Right", typeof(BreakableText))]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Space", typeof(Space))]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("Underline", typeof(BreakableText))]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlChoiceIdentifierAttribute("ItemsElementName")]
public object[] Items {
    get {
        return this.itemsField;
    }
    set {
        this.itemsField = value;
    }
}

/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlElementAttribute("ItemsElementName")]
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlIgnoreAttribute()]
public ItemsChoiceType[] ItemsElementName {
    get {
        return this.itemsElementNameField;
    }
    set {
        this.itemsElementNameField = value;
    }
}

/// <remarks/>
[System.Xml.Serialization.XmlTextAttribute()]
public string[] Text {
    get {
        return this.textField;
    }
    set {
        this.textField = value;
    }
}

}

Answer 1

The best way might prove to feed all the XSD files to xsd.exe at the same time. Just to illustrate, assuming you have three XSD files, you just call it:

xsd.exe a.xsd b.xsd c.xsd /c

If you need to override the namespace, you just provide an extra parameter to xsd.exe:

/namespace:MyCompany.Xsd.Something