Re: [DOTNET] XMLSerialisation options...

[Brian Weeres]

<< Absolutely. You can pass an unconfigurad XmlSerializerNamespaces
instance to the Serialize call to control this. >>

I must be doing something wrong but I can't get rid of the xmlns: ... by
doing what is suggested. 

Here is my code to serialize to a string:

XmlSerializer serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(TestClass));
TestClass testClass  = new TestClass();
StringWriter writer = new StringWriter();
serializer.Serialize(writer, testClass ,new XmlSerializerNamespaces());


Here is my class

        public class TestClass
        {
                public TestClass()
                {
                }

                [XmlAttributeAttribute]
                public string ClassID = "123";

                public string Name = "Bob";
                public int Language = 1;
        }

Here is my output:
        
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<TestClass xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"; ClassID="123">
  <Name>Bob</Name>
  <Language>1</Language>
</TestClass>



What I really want is
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?>
<TestClass      ClassID="123"">
  <Name>Bob</Name>
  <Language>1</Language>
</TestClass>"   string


Thanks for any help.

Brian










-----Original Message-----
From: Marsh, Drew [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 5:27 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [DOTNET] XMLSerialisation options...

Dean Cleaver [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote:

> 1. The classes you want serialised have to be public - but
> this isn't really what I wanted for this project - I wanted
> to hide the implementation from the "end user" of this
> component - is there any way to avoid this?

Sorry... that's just the way it was designed. The XmlSerializer is not a
true IFormatter and does not use reflection which enables it to be used
in
less secure scenarios, but this means it can only act on public types
and
members.

> 2. The serialiser produced this:
>
> <transaction xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema";
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance";
> type="B2B_REQUEST_STATUS">
>
> Where all I wanted was:
>
> <transaction type="B2B_REQUEST_STATUS">
>
> Is there a way to suppress the above attributes? I've looked
> in the docs, but can't find anything...

Absolutely. You can pass an unconfigurad XmlSerializerNamespaces
instance to
the Serialize call to control this.

HTH,
Drew

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