Question

I’m trying to do something, that may be extremely simple so please bear with me, I just want to get an Attribute from an XML file into a string in my C# code. here’s what I have:

XML:

<MonitorResponseRecord Enabled="false" DisplayName="ValveFailureAtCentralPosition">
        <ExpressionMonitor>
        <AlarmName>Valve_Position_Fault</AlarmName>
            <Parameter> Sensor Position = {X}</Parameter>
        </ExpressionMonitor>
</MonitorResponseRecord>
<MonitorResponseRecord ...  ... ...>
... ...
... ... and so on about 1600 times.

C#:

[Selrializable]
[XmlType("Alarm")]  
public class AlarmDefinition
    {
        public AlarmDefinition() {}
        public AlarmDefinition Clone()
        {
            AlarmDefinition clone = new AlarmDefinition();
            clone.DisplayName = DisplayName;
                          clone.Category = Category;
        clone.Color = Color;
        clone.Description = Description;
                          return clone;

                 }

    [XmlAttribute( ??????????? )] public string DisplayName = "";

so does anyone know what I would need in the ‘???????????’ section?
I’ve tried:

[XmlAttribute("MonitorResponseRecord",AttributeName = "DisplayName")] public string DisplayName = "";

Answer 1

Since the attribute is @DisplayName, that is either just:

[XmlAttribute]
public string DisplayName = "";

or, more explicitly:

[XmlAttribute("DisplayName")]
public string DisplayName = "";

(although a property would be preferable to a public field, IMO)

The real problem seems to be the root name; it that is the outermost part of the xml document, you will need:

[XmlRoot("MonitorResponseRecord")]
public class AlarmDefinition {...}