XmlSerialization in C# - root element array

Question

I would like to de/serialize a XML-Document with type=array as root node. The given xml structure looks like this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <parties type="array">
        <party type="Person">
            <id>1</id>
            <lastname>Smith</lastname>
            <firstname>Peter</firstname>
            ...
        </party>
        <party type="Person">
            <id>2</id>
            <lastname>Smith</lastname>
            <firstname>Sarah</firstname>
            ...
        </party>
    <parties type="array">

C# Code looks like this:

[XmlRootAttribute("parties", Namespace = "", IsNullable = false)]       
public class Parties
{
    private ArrayList contacts = new ArrayList();


    public Parties()
    {

    }


    [XmlArray("parties"), XmlArrayItem("party", typeof(Person))]
    public ArrayList Contacts
    {
        get { return contacts; }
        set { contacts = value; }
    }
}

The resulting xml output is this:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <parties xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"  xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema">
        <parties>
            <party>
                <id>0</id>
                <lastname>Smith</last-name>
                <firstname>Peter</first-name>
            </party>
        </parties>
    </parties>

The problem is that I have 2 -tags now. How can I specify array type for the root element? Any ideas how to fix it without changing the given xml schema?

Kirill Polishchuk · Accepted Answer · 2011-06-26 14:06:10Z

6

Try this:

[XmlElement("party")]
public ArrayList Contacts
{
    get { return contacts; }
    set { contacts = value; }
}

answered Jun 26, 2011 at 14:06

Kirill Polishchuk

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2 Comments

Marc Gravell Over a year ago

+1; minor point - it only needs a get as long as the value is initialized correctly.

Caio Cunha Over a year ago

That solved the problem. @peter, consider marking this as the answer if it is the case.

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