Serializing List<> with XmlSerializer

Question

I have defined the following classes.

Document.cs

public class Document {
  // ...
  [XmlAttribute]
  public string Status { get; set; }
}

DocumentOrder.cs

public class DocumentOrder {
  // ...
  [XmlAttribute]
  public string Name { get; set; }
  public List<Document> Documents { get; set; }
}

When serializing this to an XML I get:

<DocumentOrder Name="myname">
  <Documents>
    <Document Status="new"/>
    // ...
  </Documents>
</DocumentOrder>

But I would like to have it like that, i.e. be the Document elements to be children of DocumentOrder.

<DocumentOrder Name="myname">
  <Document Status="new"/>
  <Document Status="new"/>
  <Document Status="new"/>
  // The document element has other attributes to distinguish...
</DocumentOrder>

How can I do that?

Answer 1

you can try :

public class DocumentOrder {
  // ...
  [XmlAttribute]
  public string Name { get; set; }
  [XmlElement("Document")]
  public List<Document> Documents { get; set; }
}