I have a class like this:
public class Level
{
[XmlAttribute]
public string Guid { get; set; }
}
public class LevelList : List<Level>
{
}
public class Test
{
public LevelList CalLevelList { get; set; }
}
Using XmlSerializer, I get the output like this:
<CalLevelList>
<Level Guid="0de98dfb-ce06-433f-aeae-786b6d920aa6"/>
<Level Guid="0de98dfb-ce06-433f-aeae-786b6d920aa7"/>
</CalLevelList>
Which is technically correct. However, without changing the class names, I'd like to make the output look like this:
<Levels>
<L Guid="0de98dfb-ce06-433f-aeae-786b6d920aa6"/>
<L Guid="0de98dfb-ce06-433f-aeae-786b6d920aa7"/>
</Levels>
I know this could be done through attributes, but couldn't figure out how. When I add an attribute to Test class like this:
public class Test
{
[XmlElement("Levels")]
public LevelList CalLevelList { get; set; }
}
the output is quite surprising:
<Levels Guid="0de98dfb-ce06-433f-aeae-786b6d920aa6"/>
<Levels Guid="0de98dfb-ce06-433f-aeae-786b6d920aa7"/>
That means, I lost the parent node. The elementname I specified becomes a node name. Why this? how to make it work?
Try this:
public class Test
{
[XmlArray("Levels")]
[XmlArrayItem("L")]
public LevelList CalLevelList { get; set; }
}
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