Question

This is the xml i get back from a third part api :

<data>
    <installations>
        <installation>
            <reader>1</reader>
            <reader>2</reader>
            <reader>3</reader>
            <reader>4</reader>
        </installation>
    </installations
</data>

And these are the classes I have for now

public class data
{
    public List<installation> installations
}

public class installation
{
    // HERE I DON'T KNOW HOW TO DO THE <reader> STUFF
}

I hope someone knows how this should be done

/Martin

Answer 1

Your classes could look like this:

public class data
{
    public List<installation> installations { get; set; }
    public data() { installations = new List<installation>(); }
}

public class installation
{
    [XmlElement("reader")]
    public List<reader> reader { get; set; }
    public installation() { reader = new List<reader>(); }
}

public class reader
{
    [XmlTextAttribute]
    public Int32 value {get;set;}
}

Two things are important here:

1. the use of XmlElement("reader") to hide the <reader></ reader> nodes that would otherwise created due to the List<reader> reader property.

2. the use of XmlTextAttribute to have the the <reader><value>1</value></reader> created as <reader>1</reader>.