Question

I’m trying to serialize a custom class that needs to use multiple elements of the same name.
I’ve tried using xmlarray, but it wraps them in another elements.

I want my xml to look like this.

<root>      <trees>some text</trees>      <trees>some more text</trees> </root> 

My code:

[Serializable(), XmlRoot('root')] public class test {       [XmlArray('trees')]       public ArrayList MyProp1 = new ArrayList();        public test()       {            MyProp1.Add('some text');            MyProp1.Add('some more text');         } } 

Answer 1

Try just using [XmlElement('trees')]:

[Serializable(), XmlRoot('root')] public class test {     [XmlElement('trees')]     public List<string> MyProp1 = new List<string>();      public test()     {         MyProp1.Add('some text');         MyProp1.Add('some more text');     } } 

Note I changed ArrayList to List<string> to clean up the output; in 1.1, StringCollection would be another option, although that has different case-sensitivity rules.