xml serialization with dynamic xml [Answered]RSS

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  dreamzor

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  xml serialization with dynamic xml

  Dec 14, 2011 07:20 AM|dreamzor|LINK

  Hi.

  i have been using xml serialization for some time now and it works great.

  I do something like this :

  System.IO.StringReader stringReader = new System.IO.StringReader((string)result.xml.ToString());
                  System.Xml.XmlTextReader xmlReader = new System.Xml.XmlTextReader(stringReader);
  
                  System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer xs = new System.Xml.Serialization.XmlSerializer(typeof(dataobject));
  
                  dataobject personSearchReturnDataConfiguration = (dataobject)xs.Deserialize(xmlReader);
  
  This works fine when the xml looks the same all the time.
  But what if the xml is dynamic and looks something like this :

  <root>
    <TypeForProduct>
      <Type>1</Type>
      <Definition>
        <PricePerHit>
          <Price>0</Price>
        </PricePerHit>
      </Definition>
    </TypeForProduct>

  <TypeForProduct>
  ...
   </TypeForProduct>

   </root>
  
  And sometimes like this :
  
  

  <root>
  <TypeForProduct>
      <Type>3</Type>
      <Definition>
        <FixedPriceAlways>
          <Price>2000</Price>
        </FixedPriceAlways>
      </Definition>
    </TypeForProduct>

  <TypeForProduct>
  ...
   </TypeForProduct>

   </root>
  
  
  The difference being the FixedPriceAlways and PricePerHit nodes.
  
  Can I somehow in the object class tell what node it should use when creating the object ?

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  bhasi83

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  Re: xml serialization with dynamic xml

  Dec 14, 2011 07:54 AM|bhasi83|LINK

  Hi,

  You can definetely acheive this.

  in the definition of ur dataobject class, just you XMLElement property and configure the name for each of the class properties when it serializes.

  Thanks,
  Bhaskar Ravindranth
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  kavita_khand...

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  Re: xml serialization with dynamic xml

  Dec 15, 2011 04:24 AM|kavita_khandhadia|LINK

  Try this http://kavstech.blogspot.com/2009/07/about-xml-serialization.html

  Please mark this post as Answer if it is of help to you!
  I would love to change the world, but they wont give me the source code.
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  Decker Dong...

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  Re: xml serialization with dynamic xml

  Dec 15, 2011 08:41 PM|Decker Dong - MSFT|LINK

  Hello dreamzor：）

  What's the code of your object model？