Question

Say I have an xml file like so:

<ArrayOfInternetProxy xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
  <InternetProxy>
    <ProxyName />
    <ProxyIP>23.19.34.127:8800</ProxyIP>
    <Username />
    <Password />
  </InternetProxy>
</ArrayOfInternetProxy>

There where many more <InternetProxy> in the xml file, but I removed them for clarity.

<InternetProxy> representes an object in my program, while <ArrayOfInternetProxy> represents an array of said object.

How can I change the tags <ArrayOfInternetProxy> and <InternetProxy> to be whatever I like?

I managed to change the attributes by using:

    [XmlElement("ProxyName")]
    public string ProxyName { get; set; }

But this doesn’t work on the other tags.

Thanks.

My class:

public class InternetProxy //I want to change this in the xml output
{
    [XmlElement("ProxyName")]
    public string ProxyName { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("ProxyIP")]
    public string Address { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("Username")]
    public string UserName { get; set; }

    [XmlElement("Password")]
    public string Password { get; set; }
}

Edit:

Here is what I tried, why doesn’t this work for me??

[XmlElement("Proxies")]
[XmlArray("Proxies")]
List<InternetProxy> proxies;

Answer 1

You should have something like:

[XmlArray("Proxies")]
public InternetProxy[] InternetProxy
{
   get;
   set;
}

To control how it’s serialized you can apply following attributes:

• XmlArrayAttribute: it’ll change the name of the array (your actual ArrayOfInternetProxy).
• XmlArrayItemAttribute: it’ll change the name of the array items (your actual InternetProxy).

If you serialize directly your array (so you don’t have such property with the array) you should apply XmlType attribute, like:

[XmlType(TypeName="Proxies")]
public class InternetProxy
{
}

See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/2baksw0z(v=vs.10).aspx for details.