Sam,
Have you looked at the XML serialisation attributes? These give you a very
great deal of control over the shaping of the XML, so you can save to and
load from a predefined XML format. I've used them successfully to
interoperate with non-.NET XML formats.
For example, suppose your file format is:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<my-class>
<some-name>123</some-name>
</my-class>
Then you can declare your code class as:
[XmlRoot("my-class")]
public class MyClass
{
[XmlElement("some-name")]
public int MyProperty { get; set; }
}
You use XmlSerializer to actually do the serialization. It takes care of
translating between the code elements and the XML nodes using the mapping
specified in the attributes. The save/load code is about four lines.
(Note: you do get some Schema-related namespace declarations when you save,
but you can make sure they don't get used anywhere, and you can still read
in files that don't have the NS declarations.)
Does this sound like it might meet your requirement?
Cheers,
--
Ivan Towlson
Thales Contact Solutions
-----Original Message-----
From: Sam Gentile [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 24 April 2002 17:50
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] Some Basic XML "Serialization" Questions
Yes, I think so as long as they don't have to do anything with a schema.
This predates schema and there just is way too much work to make a schema. I
just want to take the stuff in the C# classes and "spit it out" into the XML
files in the format that they require. They have certain elements and order,
etc. I know I am being vague but I don't want to post the files.
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