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Benazir Noormohamed
Benazir Noormohamed

Reputation: 33

Datetime value not accepted in XML through c#

Unable to pass datetime.now value to a node 'createddatetime'. Output xml file discards the node. i used the following code,

   string PATH = "C:\\Samplex.xml";
    CreateEmptyFile(PATH);

    var data = new AutoCount();
    data.Product = "AutoCount Accounting";
    data.Version = "1.5";
    data.CreatedApplication = "BApp";
    data.CreatedBy = "Business Solutions";
    data.CreatedDateTime = DateTime.Now;   /* this line*/
    var serializer = new XmlSerializer(typeof(AutoCount));
    using (var stream = new StreamWriter(PATH))
    serializer.Serialize(stream, data);

And the out put was:

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
     <AutoCount xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://schemas.autocountsoft.com/ac_accounting.xsd">
   <Product>AutoCount Accounting</Product>
    <Version>1.5</Version>
      <CreatedApplication>BApp</CreatedApplication>
       <CreatedBy>Business Solutions</CreatedBy>
    </AutoCount>

Instead of :

     <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
    <AutoCount xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns="http://schemas.autocountsoft.com/ac_accounting.xsd">
   <Product>AutoCount Accounting</Product>
    <Version>1.5</Version>
      <CreatedApplication>BApp</CreatedApplication>
       <CreatedBy>Business Solutions</CreatedBy>
       <CreatedDateTime>2015-05-03 18:01:35</CreatedDateTime>
    </AutoCount>

Upvotes: 1

Views: 143

Answers (1)

Charles Mager
Charles Mager

Reputation: 26213

When a class definition is generated by xsd.exe for an optional element (one with minOccurs="0", for example) with a type that maps to a value type such as DateTime, an additional property will be generated to indicate whether or not its value should be serialized.

In this case it would seem CreatedDateTime is optional, so the related CreatedDateTimeSpecified property should be set to true:

data.CreatedDateTime = DateTime.Now;
data.CreatedDateTimeSpecified = true;

Upvotes: 1

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