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Ravior
Ravior

Reputation: 611

.net Serializing XML in a compact, human-readable way

I'm serializing a structure that results in this output:

<NachrichtenKonfiguration>
  <Elemente>
    <Element>
      <Typ>Bool</Typ>
      <Bezeichnung>Gut</Bezeichnung>
    </Element>
    <Element>
      <Typ>Int</Typ>
      <Bezeichnung>Dauer</Bezeichnung>
    </Element>
  </Elemente>
  <Name>Teiledaten</Name>
</NachrichtenKonfiguration>

And I would like it to be rather like this:

<NachrichtenKonfiguration Name="Teiledaten">
  <Elemente>
    <Element Typ="Bool" Bezeichnung="Gut"/>
    <Element Typ="Int" Bezeichnung="Schleifdauer"/>
  </Elemente>
</NachrichtenKonfiguration>

Is it possible to make XmlSerialzer / XmlWriter do that (Use attributes instead of nested elements)?

Greetings,

Tim

Upvotes: 0

Views: 228

Answers (1)

Ravior
Ravior

Reputation: 611

Ok I got it, you simply need to add the [XmlAttribute]-tag over the corresponding declaration.

Here's how. If you have a class called "Person" and you have two attributes in it, write the code like this:

[Serializable]
public class Person
{
    [XmlAttribute]
    public int Age;
    [XmlAttribute]
    public string Name;

    public Person()
    {

    }
}

When serializing (with XmlWriter settings set to indent lines) above structure results in this xml code:

<Person Age="21" Name="Stacky" />

Upvotes: 2

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