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Angela_SB
Angela_SB

Reputation: 249

Create custom XMLSerializer with all nodes in lower case

I am using XmlSerializer to generate XML output for my class. Is it possible to create a custom XMLSerializer that have all the xml nodes in lower case? I do not want to add attributes to every field field from my class to specify the node in lower case.

Thank you, Angela

Upvotes: 6

Views: 4739

Answers (2)

code4life
code4life

Reputation: 15794

The best example I've seen over the years is found here, written by Daniel Cazzulino. I find it extremely elegant because he overrides the XmlTextReader and XmlWriter to make the serialization do exactly what he wants it to do. Hope you enjoy reading his blog!

Upvotes: 2

Marc Gravell
Marc Gravell

Reputation: 1063338

It depends how much work you want to do. Adding attributes is the easiest option, but you say you don't want to do that. You could name the classes with lower-case names, but that is a horrible way of approaching this, IMO.

You can tell XmlSerializer what to do at runtime, by using XmlAttributeOverrides - but then you need to use reflection to tell it about all the members you want to tweak, but note: if you do this, you must cache and re-use such a serializer; if you create a new XmlSerializer via XmlAttributeOverrides every time, you will leak assemblies memory.

There's an example on MSDN

Upvotes: 4

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