How to get DataTable to serialize better?

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Published on 2010-04-14T19:13:27Z Indexed on 2010/04/14 19:53 UTC
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I have the following code that serializes a DataTable to XML.

StringWriter sw = new StringWriter();
myDataTable.WriteXml(sw);

And this works, however, the serialized XML looks like this:

<NameOfTable>
    <NameOfTable>
        <ID>1</ID>
        <Name>Jack</Name>
    </NameOfTable>
    <NameOfTable>
        <ID>2</ID>
        <Name>Frank</Name>
    </NameOfTable>
</NameOfTable>

Is there anyway to change the outer <NameOfTable> to, say, <Records> and the inner <NameOfTable> to <Person>?

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