Question

When I serialize;

public class SpeedDial {     public string Value { get; set; }     public string TextTR { get; set; }     public string TextEN { get; set; }     public string IconId { get; set; } } 

It results:

<SpeedDial>     <Value>110</Value>     <TextTR>Yangın</TextTR>     <TextEN>Fire</TextEN>     <IconId>39</IconId> </SpeedDial> 

But what I want is this:

  <speedDial>     <value>110</value>     <text>       <TR>Yangın</TR>       <EN>Fire</EN>     </text>     <iconId>39</iconId>   </speedDial> 

I want to learn the canonical way…

Answer 1

Three approaches leap to mind:

1: create a property to use for the serialization, and hide the others with [XmlIgnore] 2: implement IXmlSerializable and do it yourself 3: create a separate DTO just for the serialization

Here’s an example that re-factors the ‘text’ portion into objects that XmlSerializer will like, while retaining the original public AIP:

[Serializable] public class SpeedDial {     static void Main()     {         XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof(SpeedDial));         SpeedDial foo = new SpeedDial { Value = '110', TextTR = 'Yangin',             TextEN = 'Fire', IconId = '39' };         ser.Serialize(Console.Out, foo);     }     public SpeedDial()     {         Text = new SpeedDialText();     }      [XmlElement('text'), EditorBrowsable(EditorBrowsableState.Never)]     public SpeedDialText Text { get; set; }      public string Value { get; set; }     [XmlIgnore]     public string TextTR     {         get { return Text.Tr; }         set { Text.Tr = value; }     }     [XmlIgnore]     public string TextEN     {         get { return Text.En; }         set { Text.En = value; }     }      public string IconId { get; set; } } [Serializable] public class SpeedDialText {     [XmlElement('EN')]     public string En { get; set; }     [XmlElement('TR')]     public string Tr { get; set; } }