Hi All. I have a hopefully quick question.
I have a class derived from ArrayList and have it serializing fine with
a bunch of items i add to the list.
The very basic WS method (with nothing added to the collection - that part
works exactly as i want) is shown below :
[WebMethod]
public ItemACollection GetCols()
{
public ItemACollection a = new ItemACollection();
return a;
}
The output is as follows :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ArrayOfItemA
xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
xmlns="myuri:someuri" />
My problem is simply this - i do not want the "ArrayOfItemA" appearing at
the root here - I would rather have my own custom root element.
I think i have tried everything (i thought it would be real simple), both
within this class and within the ItemACollection class and can't seem to
get it. I have looked around, but not found an answer to this.
I would have hoped something like the following would have worked as I
successfully used the following technique to serialize other ArrayList
derived instances, but it is actually controlling the root element that is
driving me nuts here. Any ideas?
public class ItemACollection : ArrayList
{
[XmlArray("AItems")]
[XmlArrayItem("AItem", typeof(ItemA))]
public new ItemA this [int index]
{
get
{
return(ItemA)base[index];
}
set
{
base[index] = value;
}
}
public int Add(ItemA value)
{
return base.Add (value);
}
}
I am continuing to look at this when i get 5 mins and i'll mail back it i
get it.
thanks,
Steven
http://www.stevenlivingstone.com
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