Question

Please show me, how to deserialize this one in XmlSerializer

<Root>
   <Ship KindID=0>
      <Ship0 Name='A' />
      <Ship1 Name='B' />
      <Ship2 Name='C' />
   </Ship>
   <Ship KindID=1>
      <Ship3 Name='AA' />
      <Ship4 Name='BB' />
      <Ship4 Name='cC' />
   </Ship>
</Root>

To

public class Ships {
   public List<Ship> Ships {get; set;}
}
public class Ship {
   public string Name {get;set;}
   public int KindID {get;set;}
}

I want the way to deserialize without navigating all xml path manual. Just do XmlSerializer.Deserialize(mem, obj)

Thanks

Answer 1

You can deserialize something like that.

var reader = new StreamReader("Path of the xml");
var shipCollection = (List<Ship>)serializer.Deserialize(reader);

Once you have collection you can use Linq

var shipNameCollection =  shipCollection.Where( t=> t.Name != null).ToList();

You will have list of names of all the ships