Question

In short, I am trying to take XML data and store it in a table. The structure giving me problems currently looks like so:

<Event>
  <PhaseOne>...</PhaseOne>
  <PhaseTwo>...</PhaseTwo>
  <PhaseThree>...</PhaseThree>
  <EventID>12345</EventID>
  <EventDate>09/09/09</EventDate>
</Event>

The end result from this is 3 rows in my Event table (one for each <Phase>). Each row not only requires the data inside the respective <Phase> element, it also requires parent level values such as <EventID>.

I have the XSD.exe generated classes to deserialize the XML into but I’m at a loss at how to configure my EF Code First Mappings to generate the correct results.

I thought I would simply map each <Phase> class to the same table but then I’m not sure how I would map the parent level values (<EventID>) to columns in that row.

Unfortunately I cannot change the XML or the table schemas.

Answer 1

My solution

I added copies of the EventID and EventDate members to each Phase class and then populated them manually post-deserialization.