I admit to not having done much Serialization stuff so I'm sorry if these questions are basic but they might not be since what I am trying to do is not .NET's standard view of Seriazation. I understand fairly well the use of the [Serializable] attribute and the native Binary IFormatter interface. I understand also that there is XML and SOAP serialization. But all of these seem to serialize to the CLR's view of an object or something with XML Schema types. What I actually have to do is: we have some XML files that we create in our application. They were defined before XML schema and they are not Schema compliant. I have some .NET classes I am defining and I need to put the data/state in them written out to these XML files in a certain format. The trick is I can't just dump .NET's "view" of the objects. The XML files have a certain format. Can I make use of any of XML Serialization or do I just have "pound" XML into the files using classes in System.Xml? In other words, how customizable is the XML serialization? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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