They are forming an empty classs similar to xml tags. i d o not want that to be create as .cs file. The Given xml file must be deserialized as X document.
No. XDocument.Load loads the XML document to an object that represents the XML document itself. Isn't it what you are looking for ? The use of "deserialization" is confusing as it is more about loading an XML document as plain .NET data structures matching
whatever kind of data needs your app.
If you need further help, it seems you should give some details so that we better understand which kind of help you are looking for.
Answered in the other thread. If this your manager that talked about "deserializing to a XDocument object" it is really confusing. The first thing to clarify would be :
is the XML structure known ? If yes then your manager seems wrong and you'll just deserialize that to a structure that matches your need
if not you'll have to load that file in a XDocument and may be to "infer" the schema for this XML file so that you can maybe further process this
Could you clarify if the XML structure of this file is known or not. And if case #2, what you are supposed to do then from this entirely unknown file ?
namespace ConsoleApp1
{
// Use http://xmltocsharp.azurewebsites.net/ to generate C# classes from an XML sample file
/*
Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0
http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
*/
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml.Linq;
using System.Xml.Serialization;
//namespace Xml2CSharp
//{
[XmlRoot(ElementName="author", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public class Author {
[XmlElement(ElementName="first-name", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public string Firstname { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName="last-name", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public string Lastname { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName="name", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public string Name { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName="book", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public class Book {
[XmlElement(ElementName="title", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public string Title { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName="author", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public Author Author { get; set; }
[XmlElement(ElementName="price", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public string Price { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="genre")]
public string Genre { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="publicationdate")]
public string Publicationdate { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="ISBN")]
public string ISBN { get; set; }
}
[XmlRoot(ElementName="bookstore", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public class Bookstore {
[XmlElement(ElementName="book", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")]
public List<Book> Book { get; set; }
[XmlAttribute(AttributeName="xmlns")]
public string Xmlns { get; set; }
}
//}
class Program
{
private const string path = "books.xml";
// Known structure (deserialization)
static void Demo1()
{
Bookstore bookStore;
var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Bookstore));
using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(path))
{
bookStore = (Bookstore)serializer.Deserialize(reader);
}
foreach(var book in bookStore.Book)
{
Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}", book.Title, book.Author.Firstname);
}
}
// Unknown structure: XDocument
static void Demo2()
{
var doc = XDocument.Load(path);
foreach(var elt in doc.Root.Elements())
{
foreach(var att in elt.Attributes())
{
Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", att.Name, att.Value); // do something with the document content whatever it is
}
}
}
static void Main(string[] args)
{
Demo1();
Demo2();
}
}
}
/* The output is :
The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin
The Confidence Man, Herman
The Gorgias,
genre: autobiography
publicationdate: 1981-03-22
ISBN: 1-861003-11-0
genre: novel
publicationdate: 1967-11-17
ISBN: 0-201-63361-2
genre: philosophy
publicationdate: 1991-02-15
ISBN: 1-861001-57-6
*/
What will you do then with an object about which you start by knowing nothing at all ? If you need further help please EXPLAIN your final goal. I wonder if this requirement is even real or just based on some kind of misunderstanding or at least it would
be easier to figure out which path we would try to achieve this - for now unknown - final goal.
What are you really supposed to do with the XML file from which you start and once it has been "deserialized" ??? Or you expect to be able to write strongly typed code that would work on data about which you know nothing when the code is written ???
Humm... This is NOT the question you asked first !?
- Given Xml i want to "deserialize" xml to XDocument
So as shown in the previous sample (and told before multiple times), you can load an XML document to a XDocument object using
var doc =XDocument.Load(path);
And now it seems you were actually asking how to deserialize a json payload to an XDocument ?
Could you explain once for all what you are trying do to regardless of how you think it could be done ? And fully (ie what you'll do then once you have a XDocument).
For example one could ask this hoping to then store XML to a db or whatever while your db might support storying (and querying) json data etc...
My objective is to deserialize xml and convert to XDocument.
You don't "deserialize" XML to a XDocument. You load the XML into a XDocument so that it is easier to work on this XML document. "deserialization" would be taking XML and turning this into a .NET object that has nothing to do with XML (it
just happen that this particular instance was created using data persisted using XML). To me you have the answer for that. Case closed.
Guhananth
As per your code i had deserialized xml using Json.Convert.
I don't see where XML is involved. It seems to just deserialize an object from
json which is basically unrelated to all we discussed so far. Case closed.
Guhananth
Now i need to convert the json to XDocument.
So now you are starting from json, use your code to deserialize an object and would likely to turn this into a XDocument ? In short the steps would be to start form a json file, deserialize this to an object, serialize this object to XML and load this XML
to a XDocument (or maybe turn the object direclty to a XDocument if json.net allows that) ?
But what will you do then with this XDocument. Will you ask to do some operation you don't want to tell about for now ????
For the last time it would be much easier to help knowing your exact intent rather than asking each time about a small part exactly as it is easier for you if your manager tells what is the final result he want rather than coming each day asking to do something
new without letting you know what will be the final result.
So I'll come up with a sample but if you ask then about some next step for your final - and still unknown to date - goal, I'll just give up here.
So to me you have the answer since the very first response.
It seems more a wording issue. Serialization is persisting an object to some format (json, xml) from which you can later rebuild the same object (deserialization). Usually you basically never have to deal directly with the underlying format exactly as you
don't have to know anything about the JPG format to save and load an image with MS Paint.
Before or after the serialization you just have a .NET object which is unrelated to json or XML.
The purpose of XDocument is to load an XML file in memory so that you can work easily on this XML file. This file is exposed as a whole hierarchy of objects and collections (.NET objects but whose purpose is to expose each particular part of the XML file)
so that you can explore and change the content more easily than if you had to work directly on a single string containing a whole XML tag soup.
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Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 19, 2018 08:56 AM|Guhananth|LINK
Hi,
How to
Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
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Aug 19, 2018 11:46 AM|DA924|LINK
XDocument.Load(XML)
You should be able to find plenty of articles by using your friends Bing and Google.
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Re: Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 19, 2018 05:30 PM|Guhananth|LINK
They are forming an empty classs similar to xml tags. i d o not want that to be create as .cs file. The Given xml file must be deserialized as X document.
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Re: Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 19, 2018 06:49 PM|PatriceSc|LINK
Hi,
No. XDocument.Load loads the XML document to an object that represents the XML document itself. Isn't it what you are looking for ? The use of "deserialization" is confusing as it is more about loading an XML document as plain .NET data structures matching whatever kind of data needs your app.
If you need further help, it seems you should give some details so that we better understand which kind of help you are looking for.
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Re: Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 20, 2018 04:52 PM|Guhananth|LINK
Patrice,
Given an xml as input, i need to deserialize it and convert to Xdocument. How it can be done in a single class file .
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Aug 20, 2018 05:52 PM|PatriceSc|LINK
Answered in the other thread. If this your manager that talked about "deserializing to a XDocument object" it is really confusing. The first thing to clarify would be :
Could you clarify if the XML structure of this file is known or not. And if case #2, what you are supposed to do then from this entirely unknown file ?
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Re: Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 20, 2018 10:42 PM|Guhananth|LINK
So please provide and an example how to deserialize a given xml in a single class file.I can convert the deserialized xml to Xdocument.
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Aug 21, 2018 12:47 AM|PatriceSc|LINK
I still don't get. it To me it is 2 distinct approaches depending on what you need to do and using both doesn't seems to make really sense.
Demo1 is what I call "deserialization" ie loading a strongly typed structure (possibly from a previously serialized identical structure).
Demo2 is just working on an XML Document without knowing in advance anything at all about its content.
Books.xml is taken from https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/api/system.xml.schema.xmlschemainference?view=netframework-4.7.2#examples
namespace ConsoleApp1 { // Use http://xmltocsharp.azurewebsites.net/ to generate C# classes from an XML sample file /* Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 */ using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.IO; using System.Xml.Linq; using System.Xml.Serialization; //namespace Xml2CSharp //{ [XmlRoot(ElementName="author", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public class Author { [XmlElement(ElementName="first-name", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public string Firstname { get; set; } [XmlElement(ElementName="last-name", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public string Lastname { get; set; } [XmlElement(ElementName="name", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public string Name { get; set; } } [XmlRoot(ElementName="book", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public class Book { [XmlElement(ElementName="title", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public string Title { get; set; } [XmlElement(ElementName="author", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public Author Author { get; set; } [XmlElement(ElementName="price", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public string Price { get; set; } [XmlAttribute(AttributeName="genre")] public string Genre { get; set; } [XmlAttribute(AttributeName="publicationdate")] public string Publicationdate { get; set; } [XmlAttribute(AttributeName="ISBN")] public string ISBN { get; set; } } [XmlRoot(ElementName="bookstore", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public class Bookstore { [XmlElement(ElementName="book", Namespace="http://www.contoso.com/books")] public List<Book> Book { get; set; } [XmlAttribute(AttributeName="xmlns")] public string Xmlns { get; set; } } //} class Program { private const string path = "books.xml"; // Known structure (deserialization) static void Demo1() { Bookstore bookStore; var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(Bookstore)); using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(path)) { bookStore = (Bookstore)serializer.Deserialize(reader); } foreach(var book in bookStore.Book) { Console.WriteLine("{0}, {1}", book.Title, book.Author.Firstname); } } // Unknown structure: XDocument static void Demo2() { var doc = XDocument.Load(path); foreach(var elt in doc.Root.Elements()) { foreach(var att in elt.Attributes()) { Console.WriteLine("{0}: {1}", att.Name, att.Value); // do something with the document content whatever it is } } } static void Main(string[] args) { Demo1(); Demo2(); } } } /* The output is : The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin The Confidence Man, Herman The Gorgias, genre: autobiography publicationdate: 1981-03-22 ISBN: 1-861003-11-0 genre: novel publicationdate: 1967-11-17 ISBN: 0-201-63361-2 genre: philosophy publicationdate: 1991-02-15 ISBN: 1-861001-57-6 */Member
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Re: Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 21, 2018 01:36 AM|Guhananth|LINK
With out creating Bookstore class can u deserialize the xml,since each xml has different tags .
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Aug 21, 2018 02:39 AM|PatriceSc|LINK
Something like https://www.codeproject.com/tips/227139/converting-xml-to-an-dynamic-object-using-expandoo then and you'll have to "inspect" the object to "discover" with name/value pairs are exposed unlike the final "Usage" demo which still assume you know something in advance about which names are exposed ???
What will you do then with an object about which you start by knowing nothing at all ? If you need further help please EXPLAIN your final goal. I wonder if this requirement is even real or just based on some kind of misunderstanding or at least it would be easier to figure out which path we would try to achieve this - for now unknown - final goal.
What are you really supposed to do with the XML file from which you start and once it has been "deserialized" ??? Or you expect to be able to write strongly typed code that would work on data about which you know nothing when the code is written ???
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Aug 22, 2018 07:33 AM|Guhananth|LINK
Patrice
expandoo works great. But how to convert the Deserialized json to Xdocument .
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Aug 22, 2018 08:01 AM|PatriceSc|LINK
Humm... This is NOT the question you asked first !?
- Given Xml i want to "deserialize" xml to XDocument
So as shown in the previous sample (and told before multiple times), you can load an XML document to a XDocument object using var doc = XDocument.Load(path);
And now it seems you were actually asking how to deserialize a json payload to an XDocument ?
Could you explain once for all what you are trying do to regardless of how you think it could be done ? And fully (ie what you'll do then once you have a XDocument).
For example one could ask this hoping to then store XML to a db or whatever while your db might support storying (and querying) json data etc...
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Re: Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 22, 2018 01:41 PM|Guhananth|LINK
My objective is to deserialize xml and convert to XDocument.
As per your code i had deserialized xml using Json.Convert.
Now i need to convert the json to XDocument.
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Aug 22, 2018 01:50 PM|PatriceSc|LINK
I'll try a last time.
You don't "deserialize" XML to a XDocument. You load the XML into a XDocument so that it is easier to work on this XML document. "deserialization" would be taking XML and turning this into a .NET object that has nothing to do with XML (it just happen that this particular instance was created using data persisted using XML). To me you have the answer for that. Case closed.
I don't see where XML is involved. It seems to just deserialize an object from json which is basically unrelated to all we discussed so far. Case closed.
So now you are starting from json, use your code to deserialize an object and would likely to turn this into a XDocument ? In short the steps would be to start form a json file, deserialize this to an object, serialize this object to XML and load this XML to a XDocument (or maybe turn the object direclty to a XDocument if json.net allows that) ?
But what will you do then with this XDocument. Will you ask to do some operation you don't want to tell about for now ????
For the last time it would be much easier to help knowing your exact intent rather than asking each time about a small part exactly as it is easier for you if your manager tells what is the final result he want rather than coming each day asking to do something new without letting you know what will be the final result.
So I'll come up with a sample but if you ask then about some next step for your final - and still unknown to date - goal, I'll just give up here.
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Re: Given Xml i want to deserialize xml to XDocument
Aug 22, 2018 02:19 PM|Guhananth|LINK
project requirement is like that. Given an xml,deserialize it and convert to XDocument.
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Aug 22, 2018 02:54 PM|PatriceSc|LINK
So to me you have the answer since the very first response.
It seems more a wording issue. Serialization is persisting an object to some format (json, xml) from which you can later rebuild the same object (deserialization). Usually you basically never have to deal directly with the underlying format exactly as you don't have to know anything about the JPG format to save and load an image with MS Paint.
Before or after the serialization you just have a .NET object which is unrelated to json or XML.
The purpose of XDocument is to load an XML file in memory so that you can work easily on this XML file. This file is exposed as a whole hierarchy of objects and collections (.NET objects but whose purpose is to expose each particular part of the XML file) so that you can explore and change the content more easily than if you had to work directly on a single string containing a whole XML tag soup.