I found a problem with the XML Serialization of C#. The output of the serializer is inconsistent between normal Win32 and WinCE (but surprisingly WinCE has the IMO correcter output). Win32 simply ignores the Class2 XmlRoot("c2")
Attribute.
Does anyone know a way how to get the WinCE like output on Win32 (because i don't want the XML tags to have the class name of the serialization class).
Test Code:
using System;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
using System.IO;
namespace ConsoleTest
{
[Serializable]
[XmlRoot("c1")]
public class Class1
{
[XmlArray("items")]
public Class2[] Items;
}
[Serializable]
[XmlRoot("c2")]
public class Class2
{
[XmlAttribute("name")]
public string Name;
}
class SerTest
{
public void Execute()
{
XmlSerializer ser = new XmlSerializer(typeof (Class1));
Class1 test = new Class1 {Items = new [] {new Class2 {Name = "Some Name"}, new Class2 {Name = "Another Name"}}};
using (TextWriter writer = new StreamWriter("test.xml"))
{
ser.Serialize(writer, test);
}
}
}
}
Expected XML (WinCE generates this):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<c1 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<items>
<c2 name="Some Name" />
<c2 name="Another Name" />
</items>
</c1>
Win32 XML (seems to be the wrong version):
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<c1 xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<items>
<Class2 name="Some Name" />
<Class2 name="Another Name" />
</items>
</c1>
Try [XmlArrayItem("c2")]
[XmlRoot("c1")]
public class Class1
{
[XmlArray("items")]
[XmlArrayItem("c2")]
public Class2[] Items;
}
or [XmlType("c2")]
[XmlType("c2")]
public class Class2
{
[XmlAttribute("name")]
public string Name;
}
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