How to change the Array Element names in XmlSerialization?
- by MSDN Geek
Hi Guys,
Consider the following code:
[Serializable]
public class Human
{
public string Name { get; set; }
}
Then,
using (MemoryStream ms = new MemoryStream())
{
Human[] mans = new Human[] {
new Human() { Name = "Moim" }
};
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Human[]));
xs.Serialize(ms, mans);
string s = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(ms.ToArray());
}
At this point, the variable s will hold a value like,
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ArrayOfHuman xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
<Human>
<Name>Moim</Name>
</Human>
</ArrayOfHuman>
Now all I need to do is, changing the xml array root element 'ArrayOfHuman' to something like 'MyFavoriteArrayRootName'. I have seen the IXmlSerializable interface but, that skips the root element name. Anybody has got any idea how to achieve this?
All comments will be greatly appreciated.
Best regards.
