How to parse xml to C# class when xmlns attribute is present?

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been going nuts over this, my xml:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<ArrayOfWorItems xmlns="http://someUrl" xmlns:i="http://www.w3.org/">
<WorkItem>
    <ItemID>596</ItemID>
    <ItemPressure>35.0000</ItemPressure>
    <ItemTableID>14</ItemTableID>
    <ItemVersion>AAAAAAAADGQ=</ItemVersion>
    <ItemTemperature>-196.0000</ItemTemperature>
</WorkItem>
<WorkItem>
    <ItemID>596</ItemID>
    <ItemPressure>35.0000</ItemPressure>
    <ItemTableID>14</ItemTableID>
    <ItemVersion>AAAAAAAADGQ=</ItemVersion>
    <ItemTemperature>-196.0000</ItemTemperature>
</WorkItem>
<WorkItem>
    <ItemID>596</ItemID>
    <ItemPressure>35.0000</ItemPressure>
    <ItemTableID>14</ItemTableID>
    <ItemVersion>AAAAAAAADGQ=</ItemVersion>
    <ItemTemperature>-196.0000</ItemTemperature>
</WorkItem>
    <WorkItem>
    <ItemID>596</ItemID>
    <ItemPressure>35.0000</ItemPressure>
    <ItemTableID>14</ItemTableID>
    <ItemVersion>AAAAAAAADGQ=</ItemVersion>
    <ItemTemperature>-196.0000</ItemTemperature>
</WorkItem>

</ArrayOfWorItems>

I want to parse this to my class:

[XmlRoot("ArrayOfWorItems")]
public class ArrayOfWorItems
{
    public List<WorkItem> WorkItem { get; set; }
}

logic:

    var doc = new XmlDataDocument();

    doc.Load(path);


    XmlNamespaceManager xmlNS = new XmlNamespaceManager(doc.NameTable);

    xmlNS.AddNamespace("stupid_xmlns", @"http://someUrl");

    string contents = doc.OuterXml;

    MyXmlHandler handler = new MyXmlHandler();

    var t = handler.ParseXml<ArrayOfWorItems>(contents);

Parse method:

    public T ParseXml<T>(string  xmlStream)
    {
        XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(T));
        using (StringReader reader = new StringReader(xmlStream))
        {
            var items  = (T)(serializer.Deserialize(reader));

            return items;
        }
    }

Error:

InnerException = {"http://someUrl'> was not expected."} Message = "There is an error in XML document (1, 23)."

Been at this for a while and cant figure it out, how do I solve this?

Gowri Pranith Kumar · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-19 18:44:12Z

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The Root class needs to be specified with the Namespace attribute also .

[XmlRoot("ArrayOfWorItems", Namespace = "http://someUrl")]

edited Jul 19, 2017 at 18:44

answered Jul 19, 2017 at 18:07

Gowri Pranith Kumar

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ThunD3eR Over a year ago

Accepting this answer since it was correct for the question, but in order to make all this work I have added another answer aswell. Thank you @Gowri Pranith

ThunD3eR · Accepted Answer · 2017-07-19 20:22:45Z

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After consulting with a friend I managed to get all of it to work.

@Gowri Pranith Was actuually right on the money from start but I had put in the wrong namespace and once I figured that out I had yet another issue:

I am use to parsing json objects and hence the logic is different when parsing. Friend of mine informed me that I can not have a list property inside of my parent class since xml does not handle this the same way as when parsing json, the correct way for this to work would be :

[XmlRoot("ArrayOfWorItems", Namespace = "http://someUrl")]
public class ArrayOfWorItems: List<WorkItem>
{
}

The parent class inherits the list and the parser renders them as children

answered Jul 19, 2017 at 20:22

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