how to remove xml tags for a serialized xml string

Question

I have a simple method that is used C# .Net classes to serialize a list of objects to a XML string. For that method, I'd like to remove xml elements from the produced XML string. Please help. Thank you.

My method:

  public static string CreateXML(List<Video> list)
        {
            string result = "";
            StringWriter stringWriter = new StringWriter();
            XmlSerializer s = new XmlSerializer(list.GetType());
            s.Serialize(stringWriter, list);

            result = stringWriter.ToString();

            return result;
        }

The result string (I cut off for brevity) I get from that method:

 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" ?> 
 <ArrayOfVideo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">

    <Video>- 
         ....
     </Video>

     <Video>
       ....
     </Video>

  </ArrayOfVideo>

I would like to have a result xml string like: (tag is added <Videos> and </Videos>)

<Videos>
    <Video>- 
             ....
         </Video>

         <Video>
           ....
         </Video>
</Videos>

So, I want to remove lines:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16" ?> 
<ArrayOfVideo xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
</ArrayOfVideo>

See if this SO post helps.

Michael
– Michael

2014-11-26 19:14:33 +00:00
Commented Nov 26, 2014 at 19:14 — Michael
– Michael, Commented Nov 26, 2014 at 19:14

Efstathios Chatzikyriakidis · Accepted Answer · 2014-11-26 19:33:03Z

0

You can use LINQ to XML to parse easily the document and create a new XElement with name "Videos" having the "Video" elements inside from the loaded and parsed document. This can be done in two lines with LINQ to XML.

XElement element1 = XElement.Load("Videos.xml");

XElement element2 = new XElement ("Videos", element1.Elements("Video"));

edited Nov 26, 2014 at 19:33

answered Nov 26, 2014 at 19:24

Efstathios Chatzikyriakidis

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2 Comments

Thomas.Benz Over a year ago

@Efstahios, thank for you answer. But my method needs to have List<Video> list collection to be passed in as argument instead reading an external xml file.

Efstathios Chatzikyriakidis Over a year ago

Possible duplicate question. Go here: stackoverflow.com/questions/1772004/…

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